Quotes from Linda Simon

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Physicians were never consulted for pregnancy, and Margaret knew that when she was confined for delivery, only women would be allowed to attend to her. As late as 1522, a German physician with insatiable curiosity dressed as a woman to observe a birth. His trespass was punished: he was burned to death.