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
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. – Antonia Fraser
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. – Antonia Fraser
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. – Antonia Fraser
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. – Antonia Fraser
I don’t like it, but this afternoon I’ve told myself I am going to go and get a dress. – Antonia Fraser
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette’s life. – Antonia Fraser
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. – Antonia Fraser
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
I think there’s a tremendous split between people who’ve been through a war and people who haven’t. – Antonia Fraser
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. – Antonia Fraser
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. – Antonia Fraser
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
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
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