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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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"When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago."

"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"

"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"

"I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up."

"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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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."

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

"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."

"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."

"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."

"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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