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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
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"For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband."
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"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."
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"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."
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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."
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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
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"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."
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"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
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"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints."
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"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for."
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"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
Nature
"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
Government
"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."
Thought
"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
People
"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
Competition
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
Society
"I think writers are very anxious."
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"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
Life
"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
Woman
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
Woman
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