“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.”
More from Philippa Gregory
“Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.”
“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”
“The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.”
“Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.”