Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

[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.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

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

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.