Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees

I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each […]

She was the first female high jumper to clear two metres.

“After all, he’s speaking our language, not the other way around.