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Julie Burchill

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Kreativitas

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

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Sukses

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

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Sukses

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

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Pendidikan

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

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Perjuangan

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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Kehidupan

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

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Kreativitas

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

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Keluarga

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

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Keberanian

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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Nasihat

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

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Waktu

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

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Kehidupan

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

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Kehidupan

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

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Kehidupan

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

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Cinta

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

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Motivasi

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

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Kreativitas

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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Kreativitas

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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Cinta

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

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Kehidupan

'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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