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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
Women
Anything
Take
Offensive
Good
Fault
Always
Faults
Never
Blame
Think
Else
Thinking
Someone

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