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"But it kind of encouraged me to carry on."

"I’d never heard of Suffolk before my husband and I came to live here."

"I came from Oldham and lived in London."

"Because my husband won an Oscar for it and it will always be my special favourite film."

"Going to the ceremony and seeing his name read out and everything, it was very exciting."

"I thought it was so clever and it just shows you don’t have to have all those extra things they have in films today."

"You can make a simple, black and white film with no sound, and it still wins prizes, doesn’t it?"

"When I arrive at her new home in Eye.*I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to sort things out properly."

"I’ve been here for months but what with Calendar Girls and Corrie"

"I haven’t been home long enough to put things where I want them."

"Everything is still pretty much where the removal men left them."

"It’s crazy; life’s never been busier."

"They wanted to know what my five favourite films were."

"I was talking to this lovely person on the other end of the phone but he must have been very young because he didn’t seem to know anything I was talking about."

"This reporter on the other end hadn’t heard of it and was amazed I had chosen it."

"He asked me to explain when it was made and what it was about."

"There’s no reason, I suppose, why he should have heard of it."

"I had a Gypsy Rose Lee mother who was determined I was going on the stage."

"I was sent to stage school at a fairly young age."

"I was a little show-off and she was determined I was going to make it as a dancer and get away from Oldham, where I was born and brought up."

"I remember telling everyone that my name was Victoria because I hated the name Helen."

"It’s funny what you remembe"

"In common with other young writers whose lives were linked with theirs, Shelley, Keats and Byron were indebted to an earlier trio of Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake, whose work marked a striking break with the rational, of the early eighteenth century. This break had a profound effect on literary culture in the decades following the French Revolution. Unlike Blake, whose work remained largely unread for decades after his death, Wordsworth and Coleridge were famous in their own time. Contemporaries of both poets were startled by the distinctiveness of their work, and by the ."

"became a and a in an age when books appeared to have the potential to change the world. Between 1760 and 1809, the years of Johnson's adulthood, Britain experienced a during which nothing was certain and everything seemed possible. On paper charted the evolution of Britain's relationship first with America and then with Europe: several were intimately involved in the struggles that reformed the ."

"In 1980 Earl Anderson published an article in ' on the history of foot races in which he characterised the old women's race in ' as a delightful instance. That view, thankfully, is not replicated elsewhere. Pioneering Burney scholars, including and Kristina Straub, have read the race as symbolic of a social system that dehumanises women and is a literalisation of male brutality."

"As with all the best s, Hay makes her readers drag their feet towards the end, reluctant to part company with people she has made us know and feel for. Her book has turned the ’ uneven romance into a real love story. How pleased they would have been."

"Daisy Hay’s nuanced readings of Mary Shelley’s works, combined with photographs of manuscripts, books or physical artefacts from the collection, give readers a vivid picture of Mary Shelley’s time and how she translates life into art. As Hay in the concluding chapter argues, Frankenstein—as a productive, ethical and political metaphor—articulates the anxieties of an age inundated with , innovations and sudden changes."

"My childhood had a great influence in making me very determined to be independent and listen to my own voice. And that really put me in very good stead when I started my corporate career. I had built up my career, and I had climbed the corporate ladder. After a couple of decades, I had worked myself up to being a Vice President and General Manager of a Fortune 500 Company in Silicon Valley."

"I literally woke up one morning and said 'I am going to write a book.' I didn't write it from chapter one. I just tried to get to know who these women [my ancestors] were. I wrote in their voices for a couple of months. I would write it as a diary, and then I would put two of them in the room together and see how they interacted with one another. And then I put three in a room together until I began to really feel that I had a handle on who they were and how they would react. And what happened was a novel."

"“There is a special way of seeing come with age and distance, a kind of knowing how things happen even without knowing why. Seeing what show up one or two generations removed, from a father to a son or grandson, like repeating threads weaving through the same bolt of cloth. Repeating scraps at the foot and the head of a quilt.”"

"“We been writ out of the history of this town. They got a metal marker down to the courthouse tell a crazy twisting of what really happen Easter Sunday sixty years ago. The ones with the upper hand make the story fit how they want, and tell it so loud people tricked into thinking it real but writing down don’t make it so. The littlest colored child in Colfax, Louisiana, know better than to speak the truth of that time out loud, but real stories somehow carry forward, generation to generation.”"

"“Making a better way for the children. In the end, making a better life for our children what we all want.”"

"It isn't as if there were a lot of women, let alone African American women vice presidents," Tademy said. "There was a lot of bewilderment. And then 18 months later, when I said I was going to write a book, that's when people's eyes rolled back in their heads."

"In my head, I lived on the plantation, and then I lived through the Civil War, and then I lived in Reconstruction and then I lived in the Jim Crow South, " she said. "It was always very personal, and I think that's something that's an added complexity. I was these women, but on the flip side, they were me. I really felt them as ancestors, not just characters I made up."

"An author's life is very solitary and that part is sometimes difficult," she said. "I think about how stimulating it was to have so many smart people around (at Sun Microsystems), but I enjoy this."

"“You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking. The Lord doesn’t give us more than we can carry.”"

"“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better … what is good enough slips away.”"

"“There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.”"

"“This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.”"

"I found my feet and wings, and King’s supported my accommodation for three years. ‎*Starting as a student to becoming a part of staff faculty."

"I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine."

"I also witnessed great advances in liver diseases, my chosen speciality."

"“I’ve always been someone who wanted to look at the bigger picture, working on the business rather than in it. HR initially allowed me to see how all the dots join together in order to make a change in the business.”"

"recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"More than anything it’s just about recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"Being able to cope when things are really bad also gives you some confidence, and having courage is an important part of being a leader. But it did take me a year until I fully found my footing as a CEO.”"

"I have always felt well supported but what I have observed in boardrooms is women understating their experience and achievements. Men will traditionally overstate their experience. With AllBright we are trying to give women the space to develop that confidence and to share their experience within a supportive community.”"

"With a growing community of inspiring and connected women across the globe, we feel that there's no stopping what we can do. I think global business is waking up to the impact of having motivated and empowered women building businesses for themselves and others – and as we're half the population, that can only be a great thing."

"An understanding of the numbers is definitely important. Before becoming CEO I had worked as head of digital and strategy [for Hachette Filipacchi before the Hearst merger] so I had an understanding of operations and positioning, as well as communications and marketing. You need a good gut instinct too – and that’s important for female entrepreneurs and executives"

"I have always been a champion of women; I am the eldest of four sisters so, for me, purpose has always been around championing women. It’s not a huge surprise therefore that my first business as an entrepreneur is all about that."