Top 29 Quotes by Antonia Fraser

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

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