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I never forget that inner complexity when I'm creating a fictional character and I certainly never forget it when it comes to trans people.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
The Internet doesn’t just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly.
She might even have grown to love him romantically
(she certainly loved him as a friend)
if he had not loved Dark Magic so much,
and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.
How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.
We're living through the most misogynistic period I've experienced....Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on — on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.
Given that you're one of the biggest reasons many women on the Left no longer trust Labour to defend their rights, do you stand by these comments?
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young... and I seem to have forgotten lately.
It isn't enough for women to be trans allies. Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
As many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive.
If sex isn't real, there's no same-sex attraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn't hate to speak the truth.
I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime would think of Nazi Germany. … I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the Wizarding world.
John Granger Harry Potter's Bookshelf : The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures (2009)
The supreme irony is that the attempt to silence women with the word "TERF" may have pushed more young women towards radical feminism than the movement's seen in decades.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
Kemi Badenoch and I might not agree on a lot, but how often are male politicians called "spiteful"? And what's the issue with her manner? Did she fail in womanly sweetness, kindness and deference?
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you'd find solidarity and kinship.
Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
No story lives unless someone wants to listen.
The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding "What is today's message?" And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to "thought for the day."
I've looked around and realised that it has to be someone who can take the hit. And it has to be me. I can afford it.