Age Of Consent Quotes

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  Basil Bunting

  Temptation, Age, Madness

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

  John Entwistle

  Mean, Eighteen Years Old, America

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• You're 60
  But honestly it doesn't show
  Mind you, you reached the age of consent
  About 50,000 consents ago!

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Mind, Age

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• I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

  Shelley Winters

  Hate, Age, Consent

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• The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

  John Oliver

  Finding Yourself, Age, Poverty

  "John Oliver Explains How the Chicken Industry Systematically Screws Over Impoverished Farmers" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Real, Gun

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• Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

  Cate Blanchett

  Law, Differences, Important

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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