[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
“My father doesn’t have views. He would like to, but he can’t take the risk.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no… — 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
[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother! — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“...I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if… — 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
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