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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
Bell
Hair
Smooth
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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! "
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Family
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" That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. "
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Concern
Major
Writing
" I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. "
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People
Been
" People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. "
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Books
" 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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Myself
Dress
" Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema. "
Antonia Fraser
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Cinema
Going
" 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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Know
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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. "
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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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Realize
Always
" It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. "
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Biographies
Long
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" My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. "
Antonia Fraser
Quite
Mild
Mother
" The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. "
Antonia Fraser
Look
Book
Jacket
" We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. "
Antonia Fraser
Poor
Must
Out
" 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
Change
Book
Washington
" I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. "
Antonia Fraser
Great
History
Deal
" Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. "
Antonia Fraser
Always
First Love
Love
" I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. "
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Most
Think
I Think
" I'm glad I was never an heiress. "
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Never
Glad
" 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
Me
Future
" I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. "
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Writing
Think
Crime
" I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. "
Antonia Fraser
Moral
People
Evil
" 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
Doctor
Education
" King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. "
Antonia Fraser
Making
Love
Well
" My mother was a politician in my formative years. "
Antonia Fraser
Formative
Mother
Politician