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I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

— Iris Murdoch The Red and the Green (1965)

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970)

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

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

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