Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Beatrix Campbell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Beatrix Campbell.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Beatrix Campbell

Mary Lorimer Beatrix Campbell, OBE is an English writer and activist who has written for a number of publications since the early 1970s. Her books include Wigan Pier Revisited (1984), Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places (1993) and Diana, Princess of Wales: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy (1998). She has also made films, including Listen to the Children (1990), a documentary about child abuse.

Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked. — © Beatrix Campbell
Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.
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.
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.
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.
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