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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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Hilary Mary Thompson
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My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
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This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
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[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
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Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
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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.
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