It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
- Antonia Fraser
Biographies, Gap, Historical, Emergence
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
- Antonia Fraser
Friendly, Clue, Too, Jacket
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
Woman, Been, Centuries, 18th Century
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
- Antonia Fraser
Most, Mine, Fullest, Plausible
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
- Antonia Fraser
Planned, Always, Had, None
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
Childhood, Some, Arrival, Marie
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
- Antonia Fraser
Book, Made, Professionally, Bell
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
- Antonia Fraser
Love, Special, Always, Something Special
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
- Antonia Fraser
Will, Throw, Actually, Persecute
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
- Antonia Fraser
Like, Exercises, Zest, Normally
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
- Antonia Fraser
Think, Deal, Been, Great Deal
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
Women, Human Being, Been, Early
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
- Antonia Fraser
Mother, Became, Utterly, Sharp
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
- Antonia Fraser
Hands, Books, Tend, Deserts
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
Brilliant, Began, James, Miller
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
- Antonia Fraser
More, Fiction, Read, Real Thing
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
- Antonia Fraser
Good And Evil, Very, Natures, Evil
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
- Antonia Fraser
Queen, Turned, Subject, Farthest
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
- Antonia Fraser
Think, Through, Been, Split
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
- Antonia Fraser
Writing, Major, Writers, Concern
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
- Antonia Fraser
Good, Tomorrow, Idea, Shore
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
- Antonia Fraser
Poor, Must, Privileged, Poor People
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
- Antonia Fraser
Never, Glad
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
- Antonia Fraser
Trying, Think, I Think, Crime
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
- Antonia Fraser
Mother, Years, Formative, Politician
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
- Antonia Fraser
Dress, Like, Going, Afternoon
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
- Antonia Fraser
Know, Sure, I Write, Cold
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
- Antonia Fraser
Love, King, Making, Charles
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