Top 29 Quotes by 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.

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.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

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

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.