"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

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"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity."

Identity

"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."

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"My clothes are very popular in Japan."

Fashion

"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula."

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"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain."

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"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle."

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"Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men."

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"But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing."

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"I think it's important to vote."

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"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work."

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