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Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates

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Around this time, men in the street start telling me to smile or cheer up because it ‘might never happen’. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that maybe I’m no longer smiling in public spaces because it already has.

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“Furthermore, please never refer to any form of exercise or any exclusionary method of eating as ‘a philosophy’. Existentialism is a philosophy. Raw food is food that has not been heated above 40 degrees. Let that clear up any persistent muddling of the two.”
― Marina Hyde, What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

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“After all, as a junior minister in Her Majesty’s government, Andrea enjoyed the sort of anonymity you’d hope for in one of the better witness protection programmes.”
― Marina Hyde, What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

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“He sniffed: ‘People with knives will end up stabbing themselves,’ which sounds like something Iain’s mother might have told him when he was 13 to explain why he was still using a spoon to eat his lunch.”
― Marina Hyde, What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

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“May loses her majority and is effectively left on life support for the rest of her premiership. (Boris Johnson spends a lot of time hanging around the plug socket looking shifty.)”
― Marina Hyde, What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

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