As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.