Circumcising Quotes & Sayings

I am remembering it now. — Liz Rosenberg

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime. — Yiyun Li

Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins. — Warren Farrell

It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story. — Thomas Berry

Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children. — Charlotte Knobloch

What are men? Children who doubt. — Derek Walcott

A giant capable of circumcising redwoods with his teeth ... — Warren Ellis

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. — Horace Bushnell

Why don't we sneak out of here so I can have some of your greatness thrust upon me? — Eli Easton