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My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.

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And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement,…

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history …

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very f…

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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

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I desire therefore I exist.

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