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Antonia Fraser

"My mother was a politician in my formative years."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"Children are angels."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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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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"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."

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

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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."

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Antonia Fraser
"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."

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Antonia Fraser
"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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"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something 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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"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."

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