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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
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Fault
Always
Faults
Never
Blame
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Else
Thinking
Someone
Women
Anything
Take
Offensive

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