"Hush dear, mother's fighting."

"[Gazing into a mirror] My, what a lovely girl. How could her king have left her?"

"Katharine Hepburn - Queen Eleanor"

"[of Henry] He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin."

"[to her jewelry] I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children."

"[to Henry, cruelly] I wonder... do you ever wonder... if I slept with your father."

"My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at 21, the…"

"[to her sons] Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war, not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the la…"

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-brea…"

"I'm locked up with my sons... what mother doesn't dream of that?"