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  • What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. -- Frank Crowninshield
  • I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. -- Imelda Marcos
  • I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. -- Antonia Fraser
  • I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. -- Colin Quinn
  • My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal. -- Ariana Grande
  • Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people. -- Lorde
  • Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette -- Kathryn Lasky
  • Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady. -- Stephen J. Solarz
  • I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. -- Antonia Fraser
  • In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette -- Robert Asprin
  • 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 arrival in France! -- Antonia Fraser
  • I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths? -- M.B. Dallocchio
  • The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead. -- Kami Garcia
  • I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?' -- Suzy Menkes
  • It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there. -- Maurice Minnifield
  • Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine -- Marie Antoinette
  • I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette -- Antonia Fraser
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