Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.