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Quotation by Bernadette Devlin
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The Price of My Soul (1969)
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), Irish politician. The Price of My Soul, ch. 6 (1969).
The fiery Northern Irish political activist was remembering a summer spent working in her uncle's pub, where the "forbidden subject" of conversation was "politics."
The fiery Northern Irish political activist was remembering a summer spent working in her uncle's pub, where the "forbidden subject" of conversation was "politics."
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