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Monday 13th February

World Ruled By Women Would Be A Better Place, Says Martin Amis

Posted at 6:41AM Monday 12 Jul 2010

Amis, 60, has faced accusations of misogyny throughout his career, not least with the publication of his last novel, The Pregnant Widow, which took the downside of the sexual revolution as its theme.

But he insisted: "It is an absolutely great and marvellous and inevitable thing, the rise of women, and I'm now a sort of millenarian feminist. Men should be urging rights for women, for the good of the species.

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