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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mot

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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I think theres a tremendous split between people whove been through a war and people who havent. – Antonia Fraser

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