[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind. — 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
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 am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes. — 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
[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] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me. — 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
[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
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — 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
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
[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
[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
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
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
[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother! — 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
[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true. — 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] 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
In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
![“[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ee/hilary-mantel-440_backgrounds_margaret-thatcher-could-fake-her-class-b_554962.jpg)
![“What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/hilary-mantel-440_fascination_what-is-it-we-are-hating-it-goes-beyond_592717.jpg)
![“I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/hilary-mantel-440_country_i-think-it-is-going-to-take-another-fift_2952162.jpg)
![“I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/hilary-mantel-440_connections_i-am-sure-that-all-politicians-seek-the_1032452.jpg)
![“I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b9/hilary-mantel-440_believe_i-believe-this-was-margaret-thatcher-est_2448784.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de0/hilary-mantel-440_housewife_margaret-thatcher-was-always-talking-abo_1876420.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/hilary-mantel-440_facts_margaret-thatcher-aroused-such-strong-lo_2092067.jpg)
![“Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/hilary-mantel-440_consequence_imagine-the-consequences-of-having-the-f_1979662.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/hilary-mantel-440_entry_margaret-thatcher-is-a-woman-who-when-sh_106701.jpg)
![“One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db0/hilary-mantel-440_denial_one-of-the-ideals-margaret-thatcher-grew_780114.jpg)
![“To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/380/hilary-mantel-440_accents_to-a-brit-of-my-generation-one-of-the-mo_1900113.jpg)
![“I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/hilary-mantel-440_biographies_i-think-psychologically-margaret-thatche_206296.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06d/hilary-mantel-440_backgrounds_margaret-thatcher-said-there-was-no-thin_1872777.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/hilary-mantel-440_family_margaret-thatcher-assumed-somehow-that-t_1843474.jpg)
![“What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/hilary-mantel-440_altruism_what-margaret-thatcher-made-a-play-for-w_1064255.jpg)
![“We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a…” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/hilary-mantel-440_angela_we-have-a-number-of-very-powerful-women_2855047.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/hilary-mantel-440_children_margaret-thatcher-admitted-to-being-the_1920559.jpg)
![“I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/hilary-mantel-440_hate_i-can-t-think-of-any-male-politician-who_2569887.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/hilary-mantel-440_country_margaret-thatcher-was-pretending-that-ru_1177100.jpg)
![“It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/hilary-mantel-440_firsts_it-was-unfortunate-for-other-women-who-m_2064772.jpg)
![“[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/hilary-mantel-440_despised_margaret-thatcher-scorned-and-despised-o_1396065.jpg)
![“In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/hilary-mantel-440_impersonate_in-order-to-successfully-impersonate-men_2426675.jpg)