"I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political movement were being felt in suburban households. So many novels end with a marriage."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

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“Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.”
“Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.”
“I was just born to swing, that's all.”
“If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.”

Source : "Susan Downey: Iron Woman" by Kimberly Cutter, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 9, 2009.
“I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.”
“I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.”

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