No one is content with his own lot..

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a….

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about i….

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We….

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves..

Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something..

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance..

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes..

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great..

I'm a woman of the '90s..

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved..

The researcher is more memorable than the researched..

Nothing works unless you do the work..

Without me there could be no everybody..

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole..

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Thought is the thought of thought..

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after..