Antonia Fraser Quotes

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• The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

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  Photography, Book, Friendly

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• I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

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  Justice, Usual, Middle

  Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”

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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.

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  Fun, Class, Maids

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• I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

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  Clever, Men, Brain

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• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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  Real, Interesting, Historical

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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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• As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

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  Long, People, Terrorism

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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.

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  Eye, Self, Order

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• I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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  People, Evil, Moral

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• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

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  War, Thinking, People

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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!

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  Firsts, Privilege, Never Forget

  Antonia Fraser (2010). “Marie Antoinette”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

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  Mother, Young

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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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  Writing, Cold, Knows

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• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

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  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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  Queens, First Love, Special

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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.

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  Mother, Doctors, Oxford

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• Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

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  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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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.

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  Writing, Ideas, Tomorrow

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• People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

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  Book, Hands, People

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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!

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  Book, Childhood, France

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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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  Writing, Self Confidence, Maine

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• I'm glad I was never an heiress.

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  Heiress, Glad

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• I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

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  Thinking, Valuable, Revisionism

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• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

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  Exercise, Zest, Swim

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• I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

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  Writing, Heart, Biographies

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