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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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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."
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"It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth."
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"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
Want
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought
"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father
"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."
Books
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
Fear
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
Heart
"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
Baby
"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."
Dance
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now
"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
People
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