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Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

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Childhood, Gender, Lives, Hating

When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

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Through, Eiffel Tower, Your, Tom

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

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Other, Idea, About, Dinner Party

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

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Responsibility, Division, Trades

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

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Best, Labour, Remembers, Fury

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

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I Am, Term, Am, Feminist

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

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Wife, Back, Been, Bumped

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

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Been, Before, Widening, Sovereignty

Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege.

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Wake Up, Every Day, Britain, 21st-Century

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

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Bad, Rather, Very, Humbling

Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.

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Idiot, Makes, Certainly, Missing

Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

- Robert Webb

Wear, Pills, Putting, Wig

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

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Pink, Some, Other, Terrible Thing

When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once.

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Bus, Chewing Gum, Mac, Ad Campaign

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

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Thought, Gender, Habits, Practices

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

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I Think, Rather, Reveals, Flaws

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

- Robert Webb

Mum, Dad, Voted, Kitchen Table

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.

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College, Go, Like, Policemen

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.

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Theatre, Play, Times, Usher

I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.

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Lunch, Minutes, 15 Minutes, Wondering

It was quite an honour when 'New Woman' magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron.

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Think, New, David Cameron, Sexiest

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

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Romantic, Down, Too, Proposed

Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.

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Going, Come, Educational, Roughly

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

- Robert Webb

Political Leaders, Imagine, Factor

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

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Doing, Goes, Show, Telly

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

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Doing, Some, Other, Telly

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

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War, Noticed, Fought, Fascism

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

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Young, Student, Role, Unpublished

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

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Book, I Think, Perfectly, Potter

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

- Robert Webb

Forget, Seventies, Lot, Towers

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