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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

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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.

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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.

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