Hilary Mantel
Biography
Quotes
- I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.
- Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
- I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
