J.K. Rowling Quotes

I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe.

[On her first marriage] I married on October 16, 1992. I left on November 17, 1993. So that was the duration of what I considered to be the marriage. ... [O]bviously you do not leave a marriage after that very short period of time unless there are serious problems. I'm not the kind of person who bales out without there being serious problems. My relationship before that lasted seven years. I'm a long-term girl. And I had a baby with this man. But it didn't work. And it was clear to me that it was time to go and so I went. I never regretted it.

'Cis' is ideological language, signifying belief in the unfalsifiable concept of gender identity. You have a perfect right to believe in unprovable essences that may or may not match the sexed body, but the rest of us have a right to disagree, and to refuse to adopt your jargon.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

[To Alastair Campbell, former spokesman for Tony Blair, who had commented Badenoch was not speaking about her role as Secretary of State for Business and Trade] Badenoch is also minister for women and equalities. Thanks once again for highlighting Labour's complacency and indifference towards the rights of half the electorate.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

"Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!"

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding "What is today's message?" And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to "thought for the day."