“It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.”
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My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
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.
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
