Ben Thurley

“Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class.”
― Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

“The rules that have really changed, and are still changing, do not so much concern what is right or wrong in sex: women have been telling men the truth about that, one way or another, for a very long time. The rules that have really changed for men like Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, John Hockenberry and many others like them is that they can no longer be confident that when they ignore the shouts and silences of the women they demean, no consequences will follow.”
― Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

“There is a document that records God's endless, dispiriting struggle with organized religion, known as the Bible.”
― Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate