My advantage as a woman and a ...

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.
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

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 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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.
 Antonia Fraser
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
 Antonia Fraser
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
 Antonia Fraser
[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.
 Antonia Fraser
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!
 Antonia Fraser