Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Philippa GregoryHe had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
Philippa GregoryKatherine 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.
Philippa Gregory