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" A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. "
Julie Burchill
Feminist
Fun
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" Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. "
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" Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun. "
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Evening
Fun
Good
" I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. "
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" When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem. "
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Eye
Feminism
" Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years. "
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Years
Think
Restless
" These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. "
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Beauty
Business
Women
" Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. "
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Like
Beauty
" Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. "
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Bridges
Tourist
Never
" One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' "
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Tradition
Doing
Christmas
" Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so. "
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Tribe
Think
She
" To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together. "
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Friends
Believe
Together
" The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa. "
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Where
Twist
" The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you. "
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Anyone
Secret
Thinks
" I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. "
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Sad
Women
Time
" There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. "
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Women
Brave
Game
" Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. "
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Here
Buildings
City
" What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? "
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Now
Smoke
Mirrors
" I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched. "
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People
Thought
Always
" 'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. "
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Feel
Healthy
Need
" Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one. "
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Never
Remember
Giving
" Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' "
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Love
Question
Men
" Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express. "
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Royal
Country
Family
" Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. "
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Growing
Growing Old
Suicide
" Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist. "
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Saying
Small
Group
" When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? "
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Empire
Did
Living
" It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. "
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Face
Said
Pretty Face
" I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances. "
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Violence
Women
Jealousy
" Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.' "
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Friends
Best
Sunday
" As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. "
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Kid
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" The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps. "
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Me
Fear
Body