Quotes from 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.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

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

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

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

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.