Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregoryis an English historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl, which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 January 1954
rejection darkness despair
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
eye center-of-attention attention
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
faces wheels lows
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
heart
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
giving want tomorrow
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.
sweet dark men
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?
husband thinking years
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
ambition compromise virtue
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
forgiving forget
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.