Babylon Quote by Ilona Andrews

“Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who…

— Chetan Bhagat

“One program that deplored the high incidence of wife beating drew hundreds of letters from angry men, who insisted that beating their wives was…

— Geraldine Brooks

“That rattled Lindsey. At home a teacher who used that dirty word would be suspended. One who repeated it could be fired. and besides…

— Mackey Chandler

“The old woman started to scream but nobody came to see what was the matter. Can one be sure who is screaming and from…

— Mrożek Sławomir

The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the BBC to…

— Sandi Toksvig

“The First Lieutenant shouted something, but I couldn’t hear it over the noise of the crowd. I was thrilled that the tenants were protecting…

— Moira J. Moore

“A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it.…

— Joseph Gies

“When order in study was finally reestablished, Wrath looked downright nasty. "Next one of you mouthy assholes makes me pound my desk again, I'm…

— J.R. Ward

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Now she is inviting you to a seminar at the university, where books are analyzed according to all Codes, Conscious and Unconscious, and in…

— Italo Calvino

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah,…

— Mona Eltahawy

I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards…

— Sandi Toksvig