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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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