[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother! — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image