When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

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 have given my word that only death will take me from you.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.