Antonia Fraser Quotes
"As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: People, Terrorism, Will)
"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
(Related: Change, History, Washington)
"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Fiction)
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Dress)
"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Hair, Hate)
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Idea, Future, Mystery, Tomorrow)
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Heart, Biography)
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Crime, Order, Trying, Writing)
"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Life)
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: History, Women)
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: War, People)
"I'm glad I was never an heiress."
- Antonia Fraser
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Queen)
"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Day)
"That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Prison, Writers, Writing)
"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Love, Women, Company)
"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
(Related: Women, Class, Fun, Woman)
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Love, First, First love, Queen)
"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
(Related: Education, Women, Mother, Being, Woman)
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Mother, Years)
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Mother)
"Ninety-seven is my lucky number."
- Antonia Fraser
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Cinema, Zest)
"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: People, Books, Police)
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Photography)
"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: People, Poor)
"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: People, Evil)
"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
(Related: Family, Books, Childhood)