“... Things being as they are,’ the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote in her 1971 essay ‘A Defence of Abortion’, two years before Roe v. Wade, ‘there isn’t much a woman can safely do to abort herself. So the question asked is what a third party may do.’ By third parties, Thomson meant abortionists ...”

“... Discourse; the bits about new kinship systems and older nuclear-family arrangements come from Judith Butler. And here’s another, from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a frequent and clearly much loved presence: ‘Queer is a continuing moment, movement, motive – recurrent, eddying, troublant. Keenly, it is relational, and strange.’ The book begins with the ...”

“... or whether, as she herself told it, ‘the magazine of good living’ approached her through Judith Jones (the legendary Knopf editor of Julia Child, Edna Lewis and many others). In Colwin’s version of the story, she was initially uncertain about the gig but then decided that readers might enjoy a break from the magazine’s ‘high fashion food’ to ...”

“... a licence. ‘Benefit’ includes eating the meals his wife cooks. She requires a licence to cook them, and is obliged to account for every penny spent by the household. She speaks little English and is disabled, so is compelled to pass the obligation onto their children, who have to submit monthly accounts to the Treasury of every apple bought from the ...”

“... about capitalism or racism, your own complicity in both or either. Whether you are aunt or wife or cook or freemartin, all women are equally oppressed.Nowhere in the constitution of this utopia does it say that although yes, of course, it’s true that women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy most certainly are under attack in the US at present, the ...”

“... it into a book. Le parrocchie di Regalpetra, a fictionalised portrait of Racalmuto (translated by Judith Green in 1969 not as ‘The Parishes of Regalpetra’ but as Salt in the Wound, the title Sciascia had wanted for the Italian version), appeared in 1956 and sold well enough for him to buy his aunts a fridge. The same year, he wrote a piece for ...”

“... best friends from back home and they talked about facts. Who you love is a fact and the meals you cook are facts. When the sun shines it is a fact of God and England is a fact of life. Rania always said she had preferred living in Mile End because the markets were better over there, but at least Westfield was near her now in White City. She was 31. ‘I was ...”