"The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days."

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Source : Marina Warner (2013). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, OUP Oxford

Marina Warner

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“Zombies are the blue-collar monsters”
“If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.”
“I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.”
“Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.”

Source : "Midnight Over Sanctaphrax". Book by Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2000.
“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
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“Size doesn't matter, fast data is better than big data”
“Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.”

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