Beatrix Campbell Quotes

• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Gay, Cycling, Identity Politics

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• Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Enlightened, Be Prepared, Amused

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• Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Perfect, Abuse

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• A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Lying, Childhood

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