Anne Boleyn Quotes

“We want men to admire us for our courage, our characters, and our intellect, not just our beauty.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“But Anne was asking herself why being queen mattered so much, when the chance for true love was hers for the seizing. And always she came back to the argument that the crown was hers for the seizing too. She had never seen marriage alone as an especially fulfilling estate for women. She had always wanted more in life – and more than she had ever dreamed of would soon, God willing, be in her grasp. There was so much that she could accomplish as queen.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“But maybe it was Eve, not Adam, who was deceived. And if you think about it, women were greater than men from the first. Adam means earth, but the name Eve stands for life.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“Without Henry, she was nothing, and the wolves would be waiting to pounce . . .”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“Katherine is my death and I am hers.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“Because, when it came down to it, power depended only on a woman’s body not letting her down.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“I would rather a simple ploughman could read it and make up his own mind than see the Church continue to manipulate the Bible to its own ends.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“Remove the crown and the fine clothes, and you’re left with a fairly ordinary man.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“And who would have dared refuse him? Whoever she was, Anne silently applauded her.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“Lady Wingfield had confided to a friend that the Queen was a loose woman.”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

“As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the Lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.’ ”
― Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession