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Hilary Mantel Quotes

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1952

Topics

You Sex Write Read Either

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Meaning Philosophy You Know Hidden

'Acceptance' is always a good word.

Good Acceptance Always Word

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Motherhood Career Satisfied Totally

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

John Philpot Curran

Man Bad Place Bad Man Found Every

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

Light Gravity Strings Different Than

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Control Better Understanding Leaving

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

People Me Fat You Never See

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Life Work School My Life Intention

My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.

Artist Special First Years Working

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

Life Mother Past Me Weird Palm

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding

Experience Language Over Like Fits

'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.

Song Dream Sound Everything Up Woke

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