A biography for Amanda Foremanhasn’t been written yet.
“With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.”
“When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.”
“Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.”
“I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.”
“Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.”
“As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.”