Quotes from Philippa Gregory

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

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

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.

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.

I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

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.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

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.

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.

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

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

I have learned the power of surviving.

I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.