The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.