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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
- Antonia Fraser
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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
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Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
- Antonia Fraser
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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
- Antonia Fraser
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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
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
- Antonia Fraser
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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
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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
- Antonia Fraser
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My mother was a politician in my formative years.
- Antonia Fraser
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
- Antonia Fraser
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
- Antonia Fraser
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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
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
- Antonia Fraser
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
- Antonia Fraser
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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
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