Hilary Mantel Quotes About Children
-
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."
→ -
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
→ -
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.
→
Related Authors
-
Zadie Smith Novelist -
Mark Rylance Actor -
Kate Atkinson Writer -
Thomas Wolsey Political figure -
Peter Carey Novelist -
Margaret Atwood Poet -
Damian Lewis Actor -
Henry VIII of England King of England -
Margaret Thatcher Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -
Philippa Gregory Novelist -
Catherine of Aragon Ambassador -
Tan Twan Eng Author -
Claire Foy Film actress -
J. M. Coetzee Novelist -
Thomas More Saint -
Ian Mcewan Novelist -
Julian Barnes Writer -
A. S. Byatt Novelist -
Eleanor Catton Author -
Anne Boleyn Marquess of Pembroke