Antonia Fraser Quotes

• The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

  Antonia Fraser

  Photography, Book, Friendly

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

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  Justice, Usual, Middle

  Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”

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• I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

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  Inteligente, Hombres, Cerebro

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

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  Real, Interesting, Historical

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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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  Fun, Class, Maids

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• Lo he visto todo, lo he oído todo, lo he olvidado todo. marie antoinette

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  Forgotten, Heard, Marie

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• As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

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  Long, People, Terrorism

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• [En la sociedad europea del siglo XVI] El matrimonio era el arco del triunfo por el que las mujeres, casi sin excepción, debían pasar para llegar a la opinión pública. Y tras el matrimonio seguía, en teoría, la total abnegación de la mujer.

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  Eye, Self, Order

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• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

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  Guerra, Pensamiento, Gente

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

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  People, Evil, Moral

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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!

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  Firsts, Privilege, Never Forget

  Antonia Fraser (2010). “Marie Antoinette”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

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  Mother, Young

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• 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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  Writing, Cold, Knows

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• Creo que la escritura de crímenes es mi vínculo con el intento de preservar una especie de orden.

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  Escribir, pensar, ordenar

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• Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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  Queens, First Love, Special

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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.

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  Mother, Doctors, Oxford

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• Por supuesto que no existe una persona totalmente objetiva, excepto Dios Todopoderoso, si es que existe.

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  Justicia, diversidad, cultura

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

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  Thinking, Valuable, Revisionism

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• Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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  Numbers, Lucky, Seven

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• Normalmente me hago nadar, hago ejercicios. Para animarme me gusta ir al cine.

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  Exercise, Zest, Swim

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

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  Book, Hands, People

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• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

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  Writing, Ideas, Tomorrow

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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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  Writing, Heart, Biographies

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• I'm glad I was never an heiress.

  Antonia Fraser

  Heiress, Glad

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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

  Writing, Self Confidence, Maine

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