Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

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

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Home
  • Wine
  • Lunch

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Freedom
  • Simple
  • Tolerance

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Because
  • Selfish
  • Upset

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Feels

• It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

  

  R. F. Delderfield
  • Life
  • Curious
  • Patterns

• Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Success
  • Night
  • Sleep

• The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Body
  • Blues
  • Floats

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also find each other if they're not living in the same city, or even if they are but they're not friends with the same people!

  

  Petra Collins
  • Different
  • Media
  • Social

• Fortunately, we have reached the moon, but the Earth still suffers from hunger.

  

  Adriano Celentano
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Hunger

• In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!

  

  Steve Martin
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Say

• Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • News
  • Advertising
  • Worthless

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

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Feminism