Philippa Gregory Quotes

For me, getting married doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to some pre-defined idea. Rather, it's an opportunity to explore new things in life.

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

I hope I get married one day.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.