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How do we form ourselves into an activity — a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic — the most useless people in the world.

— Germaine Greer

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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)

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

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)

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