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Are we to deny our daughters the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck or Shakespeare?....Where is the equality in banning girls from enjoying wonderful works of literature?....What kind of society defines suitable reading material by sex? This is indefensible censorship encouraging ignorance and bias. [About Caitlin Moran's statement.]


Diane Davies

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NORMAN DAVIES I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I th...
LYNN DAVIES I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I...
DAVE DAVIES I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway, you're on the same wavelength a...
JONATHAN DAVIES In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic...
PAUL DAVIES It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
NORMAN DAVIES People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of Fra...
NORMAN DAVIES It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthe...
LYNN DAVIES At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it con...
NORMAN DAVIES Sitting with him, they wanted to do network, they wanted to do syndication, ... I've got to get that...
MICHAEL DAVIES And he's funny. He's disarmingly funny.
MICHAEL DAVIES I was fixated by Ken,
MICHAEL DAVIES What I want to explore is Ken Jennings as Peter Parker or Clark Kent, Spider-Man or Superman -- the ...
MICHAEL DAVIES There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.
MICHAEL DAVIES At the moment, it still seems like a very slow process, ... I'm not sure that it will start up again...
MICHAEL DAVIES We gave away a $5,200 toilet. It's just the most fantastic toilet you could ever imagine. It has an ...
MICHAEL DAVIES We are asking for people to rummage through their attics and storerooms to see if they have anything...
MICHAEL DAVIES