Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.

Why I'm not where you are ...

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.