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The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1) QUOTES

The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1) QUOTES

1 " Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

2 " Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

3 " Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

4 " Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

5 " All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

6 " Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

7 " We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

8 " The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

9 " When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

10 " In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

11 " I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

12 " I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

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

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

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

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

15 " The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

16 " I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

17 " She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

18 " Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

19 " He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)

20 " He has lost his print upon the earth; he has lost any fire. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)