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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and…
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more…
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Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped…
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
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But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
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A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the…
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is…
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that…
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,…
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It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have…
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France lost a great novel last night.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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A great novel is worth one thousand films.
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Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you…
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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I…
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate…
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting…
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
— Andre Maurois
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