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Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

— Germaine Greer The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

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I hated being out of touch, isolated by the solipsism of delirium, unable to communicate or comprehend.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth.

The Obstacle Race (1979)

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