81 Quotes by Alison Weir

Until quite recently women’s histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.

If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!

News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency – it had endured six during the past 150 years – and should give no further trouble.

Again, she may have made the equation that sexual involvement was inextricably linked with death.

A king was the Lord’s anointed, hallowed at his coronation with holy oil.

Zionists exploited, exaggerated, invented, or even perpetrated “anti-Semitic” incidents both to procure support and to drive Jews to immigrate to the Zionist-designated homeland. A few examples are discussed below.

How sad it was not to know how happy you were until it was too late.

We want men to admire us for our courage, our characters, and our intellect, not just our beauty.