Joan Smith
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"Joan Alison Smith" is an England/English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the England/English section of International PEN.

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For many of our friends who are gay, this is not a significant event in their lives. It doesn't mean that I can now claim Marilyn as a dependent. It doesn't mean that I can leave her my money without consequence. It doesn't give me the same rights as the average American.

After there are no more leaks, we will do interior work. And one of the first things we have to do is get those pigeons out.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

It became a bigger project than what we anticipated.

We have been looking for a home for the last 10 years and have not been able to acquire a building.

I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.