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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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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"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!"
Family
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
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"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love
"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
History
"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."
Woman
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress."
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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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"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?"
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