When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you’re an ordinary female housewife, people say, ‘This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it’s not professional.’ Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. Barbara W. Tuchman Read Quote
