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"Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true."
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"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
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