Antonia Fraser

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

— Antonia Fraser

#cromwell #farthest #i #mary #possible

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

— Antonia Fraser

#deal #great #great deal #history #i

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

— Antonia Fraser

#between #haven #i #i think #people

I'm glad I was never an heiress. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#heiress #i #never

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. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#advantage #been #being #believed #doctor

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

— Antonia Fraser

#deserts #even #get #hands #just

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

— Antonia Fraser

#major #prison #who #writers #writing

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

— Antonia Fraser

#must #out #people #poor #poor people

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

— Antonia Fraser

#long #people #persecute #terrorism #throw

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. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#been #centuries #century #class #fun