Author: Hilary Mantel

Quotes

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

- Hilary Mantel

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

- Hilary Mantel

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.

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.

- Hilary Mantel

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

- Hilary Mantel

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