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

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Revolution begins in the kitchen.

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

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Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not with her, that she is a closet intellectual.

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