Hilary Mantel Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

• Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mother, Father, Winter

• [Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: newrepublic.com

• [Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

  Hilary Mantel

  Father, Towns, Small Town

  Source: newrepublic.com

• [Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mother, Religious, Father

  Source: newrepublic.com

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