"I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction."

“I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.”

“Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.”

Source : Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property and the happiness of society, considered, by an American [F. Ames], to which is prefixed, an introduction by H. Ewbank”, p.197

“I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.”

“There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.”

“A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.”

“When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.”

“If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing