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Marina Warner [1946-0] British
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Novelist


Dame Marina Sarah Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. 


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One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
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