Cathie Thurgate

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Cathie’s Quotes

“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.”
― Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman

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“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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“She was the sort of person whose mood preceded her into the room whenever she arrived, an extra presence that could not be ignored.”
― Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

tags: mary-wollstonecraft

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“I notice that every patient on the ward has a pulse of 60 recorded in their observation chart so I surreptitiously inspect the healthcare assistant’s measurement technique. He feels the patient’s pulse, looks at his watch and meticulously counts the number of seconds per minute.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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“But it’s a Saturday night and the NHS runs a skeleton service. Actually, that’s unfair on skeletons – it’s more like when they dig up remains of Neolithic Man and reconstruct what he might have looked like from a piece of clavicle and a thumb joint.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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