"I refuse to consign the whole male sex……" — Brigid Brophy
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals."
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13 Quotes by Brigid Brophy
Brigid Brophy has 13 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right…
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The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects…
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In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain.…
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The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun.…
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The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
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To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet…
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The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't…
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To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited…
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A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to…
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"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as…
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
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A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years,…
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough,…
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To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as…
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have…
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that…
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