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"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction
"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Woman
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
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"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
People
"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
Life
"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."
Famous
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
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