Quote by Julie Burchill
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact. – Julie Burchill

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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be nothing. What a woeful lack of love for ones country such statements express. – Julie Burchill

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Family
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Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Society
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Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill

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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church. – Tony Campolo

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

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Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. – John Ralston Saul

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. – Germaine Greer

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