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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.

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!

Ninety-seven Is My Lucky Number.

I'm Very Interested In Good And Evil And The Moral Natures Of People.

[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.