When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that… — Amanda Foreman Books Copy Share Image
Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s,… — Amanda Foreman Dc comics Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to… — Amanda Foreman Desire Copy Share Image
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy.… — Amanda Foreman British Copy Share Image
As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone… — Amanda Foreman Children Copy Share Image
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a… — Amanda Foreman Control Copy Share Image
The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic… — Amanda Foreman Life Copy Share Image
Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean… — Amanda Foreman Debt Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect… — Amanda Foreman Books Copy Share Image
In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started… — Amanda Foreman Dawn Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an… — Amanda Foreman Beauty Copy Share Image
When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on… — Amanda Foreman Book Copy Share Image
A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families… — Amanda Foreman England Copy Share Image
The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it… — Amanda Foreman Art Copy Share Image
“I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early” — Amanda Foreman Life Copy Share Image
I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana. — Amanda Foreman Discovered Copy Share Image
In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50… — Amanda Foreman American civil war Copy Share Image
We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street… — Amanda Foreman Shy Copy Share Image
Every now and then, a writer emerges who just gets better and better. These are the really exciting ones to encounter. Their… — Amanda Foreman Better Copy Share Image
The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise.… — Amanda Foreman Business Copy Share Image
I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get… — Amanda Foreman Children Copy Share Image
For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing… — Amanda Foreman America Copy Share Image
