How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"A girl is no good for me, no good at all. But a girl who cannot even be married!" (14.382)
The king, worried he can't marry off Mary, treats his own daughter like a diseased cow. Women are treated as property at this time, and Henry thinks Mary might be damaged goods.
Quote #8
"If women could only have more," I said longingly. "If we could have more in our own right. Being a woman at court is like forever watching a pastrycook at work in the kitchen. All the good things, and you can have nothing." (21.79)
Mary has many modern thoughts about women, and in the second half of the book, she pushes for her ideas to come true for herself.
Quote #9
I was near to delighted laughter because 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. (23.13)
As Mary becomes a stronger woman, she admires Katherine of Aragon more. Her admiration is a little ironic, though, considering Mary was once one of the "other women," and Henry might have once put Katherine aside for her.