Antonia Fraser Quotes

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Image, I’m very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in

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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

Image, I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle – that is to say nowhere.

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I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, I think there’s a tremendous split between people who’ve been through a

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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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Image, Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write

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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.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class.

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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

Image, Of course there’s no such thing as a totally objective person, except

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Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history.

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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

—Antonia Fraser

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Image, I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began

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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.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial

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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!

—Antonia Fraser

Image, [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which

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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.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, King Charles II liked women’s company and well as making love to them.

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

—Antonia Fraser

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Image, I’m glad I was never an heiress.

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I'm glad I was never an heiress.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, I can’t read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

—Antonia Fraser

Image, The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette’s childhood and on her

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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

Image, I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

—Antonia Fraser