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Twisty’s Unusual Afternoon

Twisty Faster has a blog, I Blame the Patriarchy, that can usually be relied upon to take an ironic, if not occasionally dyspeptic, view of life.
 
Being a self-confessed spinster aunt, she has not herself experienced the ‘joys’ of childbirth. Recently, however, she was privileged (if that is the word) to be present at the birth of her niece – an experience that clearly took her somewhat aback.
 
There clearly is no Intelligent Designer – unless he is a mysogynistic psychopath, or she a masochist. If I were a woman, I don’t think I’d want to put myself through childbirth.
 
As Stephen Fry is reputed to have said: When I was born, I remember looking back up at my mother and saying, "that’s the last time I’m going up in one of those." 

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2 responses to “Twisty’s Unusual Afternoon”

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    Polly

    I think Stephen Fry admits stealing that quote from some one else, but I can’t remember quite who at the moment, so it was obviously someone much less famous. We might as well attribute it to him, then. It makes the quote sound more interesting.Your blog is really good! It’s a relief to come across one that isn’t written in roughly transliterated cockney, for once.

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    Geoff

    Thanks for the kind comments, Polly. I expect you’re right about Stephen Fry appropriating the quotable quote. What was the exchange between Wilde and Whistler? Wilde: "I wish I’d said that". Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will".

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