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A feminist of the younger school ... hair bird's-nested all over the place, fuck-me shoes and three fat inches of cleavage ... So much lipstick must rot the brain - Germaine Greer, on her sister writer Suzanne Moore

We reject the idea that the Government can do everything and we reject the idea that we can do nothing. There's no picking winners. There's no government by subsidy - Gordon Brown, Shadow Chancellor

Personally, I would consider it an honour to be fossilised - Richard Dawkins, biologist

Why was the Prince of Wales sporting a chestful of glossy gongs on VE Day celebrations - most of which were gifts from Mummy - when he has never fired a gun in anger, except at a helpless pheasant? - Robert Kilroy-Silk

I wish God would take her body because he has already taken her spirit - Britt Ekland, on her mother's suffering from Alzheimer's disease

You would never have guessed she had any money ... She was happy in her little two-bedroomed flat - a friend of Alice Hawkins, who died aged 92 and left nearly pounds 5m to charity

People may not realise, but the Queen is a top pigeon fancier ... she doesn't scrape out the lofts herself but she takes quite an interest - John Clements, of the `Euro-Pigeon Year Book'