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Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Lucky
Numbers
Seven
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Glad
Heiress
Never
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My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Mother
Politician
Years
Formative
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Bedtime
Concern
Prison
Writing
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Evil
Good And Evil
Moral
People
Good Good And Evil Evil
Good Evil People
Natures
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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
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Mother
Young
Mild
Sharp
Utterly
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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Long
People
Terrorism
Long People Will
Persecute
Throw
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King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
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Kings
Making Love
Wells
Charles
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
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Forgotten
Heard
Marie
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Crime
Order
Thinking
Writing
Link
Preserve
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I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
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Justice
Middle
Usual
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Queens
First Love
Firsts
Mary
Something Special
Special
Queen
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Cinema
Exercise
Swim
Zest
Exercises
Normally
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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Revisionism
Thinking
Valuable
Great Deal
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Mary
Farthest
Queen
Subject
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I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Afternoon
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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Biographies
Emergence
Historical
Long
Fully
Gap
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Historical
Historical Fiction
Interesting
Real
Real Thing
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Book
Hands
People
Deserts
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Book
Clue
Friendly
Glamorous
Photography
Jacket
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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Marie
Plausible
Account
Fullest
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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.
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Cold
Knows
Writing
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Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Culture
Diversity
Justice
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser / Author
War
People
Thinking
War People Who
Tremendous
Split
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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 / Author
Biographies
Heart
Marie
Writing
Biography
Hearts
Planned
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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Poor People
Privileged
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I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Men
Brain
Clever
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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.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Ideas
Plans
Shore
Tomorrow
Writing
Future Good Me
Good Idea
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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.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Book
Hair
Hate
Jackets
Smooth
Bell
Professionally
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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.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Book
Brilliant
Finished
Painful
Reading
Squares
Began
Washington
Daisy
James
Miller
Re-Reading
Square
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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!
Antonia Fraser / Author
Book
Childhood
Concentration
France
Marie
Surprising
Arrival
Influences
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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 / Author
Class
Fun
Maids
Women Are
Centuries
Largely
Maid
No Fun
Previous
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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.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Women
Advantage
Doctors
Mother
Oxford
Undergraduate
Believed
Doctor
Human Being
Strongly
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Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
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Maine
Self Confidence
Writing
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[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
Antonia Fraser / Author
Eye
Order
Self
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As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
Antonia Fraser / Author
Firsts
Never Forget
Privilege
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