Women have confused equality with independence. Equality is a very good and desirable thing compared with independence, which is often rather notional and theoretical.
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I did say that women increasingly set the agenda in business, in politics, in the media, in society at large, that women's values are now considered superior to men's values.Michael Buerk
Would you, I ask, be offended to be called a chauvinist Well, I wouldn't like it, ... I do help about the house too. I think so Christine probably doesn't. And I always put down the lavatory seat.
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It was a curious experience, ... I felt nothing, and I felt odd feeling nothing. Absolutely no emotion whatsoever. I found him slightly pathetic. He said 'I have waited a long time for this moment.' I replied 'Well, you might have sent me a postcard in the meantime.'
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Oh yes - of course they set the agenda. Could you imagine a Clement Atlee becoming prime minister now You have to see the way that politicians, in order to succeed, have to be emotionally available, as opposed to coldly rational,
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Women make 80 of the buying decisions in this country. Even if they are not running the boardrooms, they at least dictate the business agenda. And the media, of course, is another thing.
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The couple divorced, the captain agreed to divorce his first wife, and then he and Betty remarried and moved to Canada. I have two wedding certificates for my parents' marriage, ... They were married twice - by the same registrar in the same register office. The first says that my father is a widower the second that he is divorced.
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