Robert K. Massie quotes:

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.