Difficult to see the glass ceiling because it’s made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.
You go out into your world, and try and find the things that will be useful to you. Your weapons. Your tools. Your charms. You find a record, or a poem, or a picture of a girl that you pin to the wall...
Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.
While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost of her capabilities. To think otherwise betrays a belief that be...
When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they’re arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they’re fighting for thei...
When statistics come in saying that only 29 percent of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42 percent of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, lad...
We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes.
There is a black-and-white picture in my hallway, of me, Nancy, and Lizzie in the bath, when Nancy was eight months old and Lizzie two-and-a-half. I am gently biting Lizzie. Nancy, in turn, is gumming...
The mouth is the heart of the face,
The 1990s are a bad time to be poor and not-famous.
Tehát végül is azt hiszem, a könyv eredeti címe, a How to be a Woman kicsit félrevezető. A botladozó, rémisztő és csodálatos évek alatt végig azt hittem, hogy amit akarok, az, hogy nővé váljak. Germai...
Precisamos retomar a palavra feminismo. Precisamos muito, mas muito mesmo pegar de volta a palavra feminismo. Quando aparecem estatísticas dizendo que apenas 29% das mulheres norte-americanas se descr...
Poor people can write. It’s one of the few things poverty, and lack of connections, cannot stop you doing.
No puedo entender los argumentos antiabortistas que se centran en que la vida es sagrada. Como especie, hemos demostrado hasta la saciedad que no creemos que la vida sea sagrada. La indiferencia con q...
Mert szó sincs arról, hogy a harcos feministák át akarnák venni az irányítást a férfiaktól. Nem az egész világot követeljük. Csak a részünket. A férfiaknak nem is igen kell változtatniuk semmin. Ami e...
It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.
I saw what an achievement it was—the will of a small, countable number of men and women who wrote, and thought, and marched, and sang. If you’d killed the right two hundred people, this future would n...
I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-s...
I imagine possible relations all the time. All the time. My God, in my teens I was fucking tragic for it. I scarcely existed in the real world at all. I lived in some kind of ... Sex Narnia. My love l...
I have no idea what cunnilingus is – certainly no one I've met in Wolverhampton can afford it.