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“We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.”

— Helen Garner

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

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I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

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But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

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I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

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It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

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