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[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.

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Antonia Fraser Dignity Empowerment Feminism Gender History Independence Inequality Marriage Married Life Matrimony Men Misogyny Perception Self Abnegation Self Determination Social Norms Subjugation Wedlock Women Women S Rights

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

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Antonia Fraser History Scotland

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

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Antonia Fraser Hatred Oppression Persecution Terrorism Violence

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king.

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Antonia Fraser Aging Male And Female

People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

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Antonia Fraser Help Predilection

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

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Antonia Fraser Dignity Love Tolerance

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.

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Antonia Fraser Education Mother Woman

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

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Antonia Fraser Love King Company
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