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Revolution begins in the kitchen.

— Helen Garner

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'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'

'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen.

Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

Our minds are not hopeful, thought Janet; but our nerves are made of optimistic stuff.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.

Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

Out in deep space the planets sweep, inexorable, along their splendid orbits. Maxine bowed her head. From now on she would take the gods' dictation.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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