History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

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

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.