Top 29 Quotes by Antonia Fraser

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

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.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

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

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

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.