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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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  Numbers, Lucky, Seven

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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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• My mother was a politician in my formative years.

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  Mother, Years, Politician

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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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• King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

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  Kings, Making Love, Wells

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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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• I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

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  Hate, Book, Hair

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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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• 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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• 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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• It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

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  Long, Historical, Biographies

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• That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

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  Writing, Bedtime, Prison

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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.

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  Book, Reading, Squares

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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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• 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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