Beatrix Campbell Quotes

#1. Humans by nature are promiscuous.
Loyalty is an aberration!

Sanjai Velayudhan

#2. In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

#3. 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

#4. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#5. What is it?"
"Well, how it works is you take the box out of my hand and open it," I say with a grin.

Lisa Desrochers

#6. The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Andy Goldsworthy

#7. I fainted ... and you ate my ass?
You fed me my own ass?

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. But you'll see, you can feel time on the wind it whips up as it passes. We don't worry about time or the wind. Nothing can touch us any more. As long as people remember us, we are here. Anyway, it's the wind that tells us, lets us know about the thigs we've left behind.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#10. Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.

Beatrix Campbell

#11. 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

#12. Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

Caleb Carr

#13. If he had slept with Zach, he would have regretted it, anyway. A fuck wasn't worth his self-esteem. He would never be the "other woman," as his mother had been.

Alessandra Hazard

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

Beatrix Campbell