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Aya Ling
“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
Aya Ling , The Ugly Stepsister

Kat Banyard
“It requires conducive social conditions rather than monstrous people to produce atrocious deeds. Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can do extraordinarily cruel things.”
Kat Banyard, Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality

Mary Beard
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be uncivilised, with those who do not -or cannot be trusted to - share our values. Civilisation is a process of exclusion as well as inclusion. The boundary between 'us' and 'them' may be an internal one (for much of world history the idea of a 'civilised woman' has been a contradiction in terms), or an external one, as the word 'barbarian' suggests; it was originally a derogatory and ethnocentric ancient Greek term for foreigners you could not understand, because they spoke in an incomprehensible babble: 'bar-bar-bar ...' The inconvenient truth, of course, is that so-called 'barbarians' may be no more than those with a different view from ourselves of what it is to be civilised, and of what matters in human culture. In the end, one person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.”
Mary Beard, How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

Georgette Heyer
“I don’t think I am green. It’s true I only know what I’ve read in books, but I’ve read a great many books”
Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.”
Stan Beckensall, Coastal Castles of Northumberland

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