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“From the day he first made me his, to the last day I made him mine, yes, let me set it down in numbers. I who can count and reckon, and have the time. Of all the days I was his and did not love him—this; and this; and this many. Of all the days I was his—and he had ceased to love me—this many; and this. In days—it comes to a thousand days—out of the years. Strangely, just a thousand. And of that thousand—one—when we were both in love. Only one, when our loves met and overlapped and were both mine and his. When I no longer hated him, he began to hate me. Except for that one day. One day, out of all the years.30”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

“all historical fiction is really contemporary fiction; you write out of your own time.44”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

“We must display a boundless capacity to capitulate to desire and indulge in impulse; we must hunger for constant and immediate satisfaction”
― Susan Bordo

“in an age when most people get their history from TV and movies, we are losing our collective sense of “what really happened.”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

“In cutting her life so short and then ruthlessly disposing of the body of evidence of her "real" existence, Henry made it possible for her to live a hundred different lives, forever.”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

“explain how Anne’s moles could”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

“Anne replied with her most famous line: “I heard say the executioner is very good, and I have a little neck.”48 And then, according to Kingston, “she put her hand about [her neck] laughing heartily.”49 Kingston flat-footedly interpreted this to mean that Anne had “much joy and pleasure in death.”50 He apparently did not “get” Anne’s irony or that she was probably becoming a bit unhinged at this point.”
― Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen