Philippa GregoryHe is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.
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A woman is like a man's wallet. If you take it, you must pay for it.
Source: The Boleyn Inheritance
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