"You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women."

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Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “The Death of William Posters: A Novel”, p.55, Open Road Media

Alan Sillitoe

“I have other fish to fry.”
“Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.”
“Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send in the French Navy to protect them and our political and commercial interests.”
“The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.”
“Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.”
“There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.”
“I never could get a proper job.”
“It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.”

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