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.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.