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" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

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" Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. "

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" The thing is, I haven't changed at all. "

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" What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. "

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" Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. "

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" I have ideas that I will probably never write now. "

" I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. "

" What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. "

" The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. "

" I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. "

" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "

" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "

" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "

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" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

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" I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. "

" I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. "