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““It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.””

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“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

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“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.”

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“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime…

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How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

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