Picture Quotes I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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! —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes [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. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm glad I was never an heiress. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette —Antonia FraserWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this