Antonia Fraser Quotes
30 Antonia Fraser quotes:
"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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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"I'm glad I was never an heiress."
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"One couldn't help thinking of Princess Diana when writing some passages, although I don't make a mention in the text, which would be anachronistic."
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"Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language."
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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
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"As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook."
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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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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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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."
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"I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling."
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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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"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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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
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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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"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of 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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"It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies."
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