Antonia Fraser Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.”

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

“People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”

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