Biographies Quote by Hilary Mantel

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.

— Robert Rhodes James

By the time I came of age and, indeed, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I had seen the entire William Shakespeare canon, which, in…

— Gregory Doran

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more…

— Pam Ferris

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

— William Beebe

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

— Denise Mina

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it…

— Peter York

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

— Hilary Mantel

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

— Hilary Mantel

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism.…

— Hilary Mantel

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

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,…

— Hilary Mantel