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

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!

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

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

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

[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.

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