Quotables

“Perhaps—and I’m just throwing this out there—the best way to prove your movement isn’t a threat to women, is to stop stalking, harassing, and threatening us.”

Author J.K. Rowling on transgender activists posting a now-deleted photo on social media with her home address visible in the background.

“I just held her and gave her a hug. A very big one, very tight.”

U.S. citizen Daniel Hsu after seeing his wife for the first time in a year and a half. The Chinese government had barred him from leaving the country for four years. He was released ahead of a virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“We’ll massacre all the scum that you have been financing.”

Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko when a BBC interviewer asked him why 270 nonprofits had been shut down in the country since July.

“There are two pronouns: he and she. Our language is beautiful. And two pronouns are appropriate.”

French first lady Brigitte Macron after a French dictionary added the gender-neutral pronoun iel to its online edition.

“Senator Dole was many things—a war hero, a father, a husband, a public servant; and to Kansans, a man who embodied everything good and decent about Kansas and about America.”

Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kan., commenting after former Sen. Bob Dole died at age 98 on Dec. 5.