Antonia Fraser quotes

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. (Antonia Fraser)
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. View quote
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. View quote
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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. View quote
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. View quote
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. View quote
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. View quote
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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. View quote
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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. View quote
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Ninety-seven is my lucky number. View quote
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. (Antonia Fraser)
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. View quote
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I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. View quote
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. View quote
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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. View quote
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. View quote
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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! View quote
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King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. View quote
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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. View quote
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My mother was a politician in my formative years. View quote
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. (Antonia Fraser)
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. View quote
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. View quote
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I'm glad I was never an heiress. View quote
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. View quote
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