To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
Brigid BrophyWhenever 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 BrophyThe bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
Brigid BrophyI don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.
Brigid BrophyTo argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.
Brigid Brophy