The Concentration In My Book On Marie

[in 16th Century European Society] Marriage Was The Triumphal Arch Through Which Women, Almost Without Exception, Had To Pass In Order To Reach The Public Eye. And After Marriage Followed, In Theory, The Total Self-abnegation Of The Woman.

I Hate The Only One Of My Book Jackets When I Was Made Up Professionally, My Hair Made Into A Smooth Bell.

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 Realize That I Had Always In My Heart Of Hearts Planned To Write A Biography Of Marie Antoinette.

I Decided As Usual That Justice Lay In The Middle - That Is To Say Nowhere.