I'm Glad I Was Never An Heiress.

I Think There Has Been A Great Deal Of Valuable Revisionism In Women's History.

[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.

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!

Of Course There's No Such Thing As A Totally Objective Person, Except Almighty God, If She Exists.

I Have Seen All, I Have Heard All, I Have Forgotten All. Marie Antoinette