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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
Work
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
Truth
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
Woman
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
Life
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
Family
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
Energy
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
Family
"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
Books
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
Family
"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
Love
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