Brigid Brophy Quotes

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I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery.... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy
On Fanny Hill:
The two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

Brigid Brophy
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

Brigid Brophy
Colette wrote of vegetables as if they were love objects and of sex as if it were an especially delightful department of gardening.

Brigid Brophy
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Brigid Brophy
Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental', you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic', they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Brigid Brophy
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Brigid Brophy
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

Brigid Brophy
Reason is necessarily the language of moral, political, and scientific argument: not because reason is holy or on some elevated plane, but because it isn't; because it is accessible to all humans; because, as well as working, it can be seen to work.

Brigid Brophy