Quotes from Rachel Holmes

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.