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Antonia Fraser

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.

Antonia Fraser

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Antonia Fraser credits her success to her mother’s firm belief in the importance of education for women, which gave her a unique benefit as both a woman and a person. She highlights that this value was passed down through generations, as her mother was among the first women to study at Oxford and her grandmother was a doctor.

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