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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
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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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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
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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
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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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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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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
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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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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
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