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

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

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

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 privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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.