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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.
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On Fanny Hill:
The two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
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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.
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Colette wrote of vegetables as if they were love objects and of sex as if it were an especially delightful department of gardening.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
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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.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Brigid Brophy
Born:
June 12, 1929
Died:
August 7, 1995
(aged 66)
Bio:
Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey was a British novelist, critic and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors and animal rights.
Known for:
Black Ship To Hell (1962)
The snow ball (1964)
Mozart the Dramatist (1988)
Prancing novelist (1973)
In transit (1969)
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