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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

— Fay Weldon The Heart of the Country (1987)

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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Life Force (1992)

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

Natalie had left the wives and joined the women.

The Heart of the Country (1987)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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