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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard."
"In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property."
"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."
"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."
"What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God."
"Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof."
"I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics."
"We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics."
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