Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMANTheology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMANHonor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMANDoctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
BARBARA TUCHMANWhen the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
BARBARA TUCHMANNo less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
BARBARA TUCHMANBooks are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMANBooks are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMANVainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
BARBARA TUCHMANTo a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
BARBARA TUCHMANTo be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
BARBARA TUCHMANNo female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
BARBARA TUCHMANI want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
BARBARA TUCHMANGovernments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
BARBARA TUCHMANWithout books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
BARBARA TUCHMAN