#katherine

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green ↗

— John Green

#nature

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#fiction #henry-viii #historical-fiction #katherine #historical

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#during #hepburn #her #into #just

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#century #could #god #hearts #him

For I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#the-boleyn-inheritance #life

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you. ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #breaking-up

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #love

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#gwenn-wright #katherine-demure #love-story #strong-heroine #suffrage

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #katherine-parr #forgiveness

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. ↗

— John Green

#joh-green #nerdfighters #remember