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

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them..

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting..

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history..

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privile….

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism..

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing..

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere..

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema..

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild..

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed….

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

Ninety-seven is my lucky number..

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

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order..

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 ….

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….

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

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 ar….

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special..