The Waiting Game Quotes

“Women's history does not need to be exceptional to be relevant.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

“Women could be villains as well as victims, sometimes both simultaneously, and could simply make bad decisions like everybody else;”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

“the past on their own terms there is no need for explicit ‘girlbossification’; they are a fascinating historical lens in their own right. Women’s history does not need to be exceptional to be relevant.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

“Much of women’s history leans on a trope of ‘exceptional’ women: ‘girlbosses’ who achieved incredible things against the impossibly patriarchal odds of their day. Such women did, of course, exist, and we should celebrate them. But we could easily describe all women in the past in this way. All of the women in The Waiting Game existed close to the centre of power and acted in ways that influenced the broader historical narrative. All occasionally stepped outside the boundaries that society allegedly dictated for their sex.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

“merry at dinner and dead by supper’.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History