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I blame the women's movement for ten years in a boiler suit.

Jill Tweedie

Two things my parents did for me as a child stand head and shoulders above what parents usually do for their children. They had me in Egypt and they set me a vivid example of everything I didn't want to be when I grew up.

Jill Tweedie

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil – far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word 'human' disappears from the race.

Jill Tweedie

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

Jill Tweedie

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

Jill Tweedie

Jill Tweedie

Jill Tweedie

Born: May 22, 1936

Died: November 12, 1993 (aged 57)

Bio: Jill Sheila Tweedie was an influential British feminist, writer and broadcaster. She was educated at the independent Croydon High School in Croydon, South London.

Known for:

Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist (1982)
Eating children (1993)
In the Name of Love (1979)
Bliss (1984)
More from Martha (1983)

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