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Amanda Foreman Quotes

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

History Wife Beginning Queen Cake

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Genuine More Question See I See

If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.

Life Food Thinking You Lose Way

Learn to obey before you command.

Learn You Obey Command Before

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

Me Believe Better Outfit Movies Guy

Every time I perform or sing, I have an 'ah ha' moment. When I look at my blog and people reach out to me anonymously and speak of how I sing and how my music has touched them, it's an 'ah ha' moment. I'm constantly getting that, and I don't want that to ever stop, because it's reassuring me that I'm doing something right.

Music Time Moment People Me Speak

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

Technology Great Amazing Think You

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

God Happy Wise Wish First Us

It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.

Good Interesting Run Along Been

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

You Way Talk Out Something Your

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Compassion Empathy Brutality Seems

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Writing You Go Sometimes Say Need

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Susanna Kearsley

Women Best Research Challenges Face

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