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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom…
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when…
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858,…
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in…
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the…
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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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…
— Julie Burchill
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the…
— Michael Caine
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John le Carre
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I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
— Tori Amos
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I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family…
— Tori Amos
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If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.
— Robin Williams
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
— Twiggy
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies,…
— Felicity Jones
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As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.
— Klaus Schulze
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