I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana. — Amanda Foreman Discovered Copy Share Image
“I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early” — Amanda Foreman Life Copy Share Image
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan. — Amanda Foreman Field Copy Share Image
The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory. — Amanda Foreman American 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
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to… — Amanda Foreman Austen Copy Share Image
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners. — Amanda Foreman Every Copy Share Image
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality. — Amanda Foreman British Copy Share Image
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
I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine. — Amanda Foreman Child Copy Share Image
For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there… — Amanda Foreman American Copy Share Image
All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate… — Amanda Foreman Civil war Copy Share Image
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape… — Amanda Foreman Dance 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
George III's ability to step in and out of his role fed stories of commoners chancing upon a sturdy gentleman by the… — Amanda Foreman Ability Copy Share Image
When I read the news that Wonder Woman was going to be resurrected for a blockbuster movie in 2016, 'Batman vs. Superman',… — Amanda Foreman Eye Copy Share Image
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best… — Amanda Foreman Art 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 Chastity 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
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Architecture 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
One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously… — Amanda Foreman Beginning Copy Share Image
The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through… — Amanda Foreman Communication 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 Comic 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
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve… — Amanda Foreman Ambition Copy Share Image
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting. — Amanda Foreman Feminism Copy Share Image
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins. — Amanda Foreman Always 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
“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.” — Amanda Foreman Calmness 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
“(One bag contained the Confederate flag and a pouch filled with Virginia soil. Georgiana intended to give birth with the flag draped… — Amanda Foreman Confederate flag Copy Share Image
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000… — Amanda Foreman Boat 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
American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said… — Amanda Foreman American Copy Share Image
In New York, appearance is a form of currency or, at the very least, a calling card. One must look wealthy in… — Amanda Foreman Appearance Copy Share Image
It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that… — Amanda Foreman Denial Copy Share Image
