I guess the men of Iceland will have to get used to the idea that women are not for sale, ~ Gudrun Jonsdottir
I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth—every day I have ever had—was secretly sunny, after all. However shi...
Hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem suddenly wonderfully clear, and possible.
Ha felismerhetően, kivehetően emberi a formád – olyasfajta figura, amilyet egy tízéves rajzolna, ha egy perc alatt kell felvázolnia egy embert –, akkor rendben vagy.[…]Aki talál magára olyan ruhát, am...
For preference, I would like you to stand on a chair and shout I AM A FEMINIST!—but this is simply because I believe everything is more exciting if you stand on a chair to do
El feminismo tradicional dirá que estos temas no son los importantes, que debemos centrarnos en lo fundamental: la desigualdad salarial, la ablación femenina en el Tercer Mundo y la violencia de géner...
David Cameron is a C-3P0 made of ham.
Cynicism is, ultimately, fear. Cynicism makes contact with your skin, and a thick black carapace begins to grow—like insect armor. This armor will protect your heart, from disappointment—but it leaves...
Buy flowers — or if you are poor, steal one from someone’s garden; the world owes you that much at least: a blossom — and put them at the end of the bed. When you wake, look at them, and tell yourself...
But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.
But the problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose. At some point- scarred, and exhausted- you either accept that you must become a woman - that you are a woman - or you die.
Being able to wear underwear brilliantly is such a key talent for a woman that there are even competitions to judge who is the best at it: Miss America, Miss World, Miss International, Miss Universe....
Becoming a woman felt a bit like becoming famous. For, from being benevolently generally ignored – the base-line existence of most children – a teenage girl is suddenly fascinating to others, and gets...
Because there is an unspoken announcement commensurate with that look. Women who’ve had the needle, or the knife, look like they’re saying: ‘My friends are not my friends, my men are unreliable and fa...
And when you are being kissed like this, you are Christmas Day; you are the moon shot; you are field larks. My shoes were suddenly worth a million pounds, and my breath was the ethyl in champagne. Whe...
And every book, you find, has its own social group- friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses provocatively.
Amire viszont mindenkit buzdítok, az nem más, minthogy mondja ki: „feminista vagyok. Lehetőleg állj fel egy székre, és kiáltsd el magad: FEMINISTA VAGYOK! – de csak azért, mert szerintem minden sokkal...
Ami engem illet, nem hiszem, hogy a „feminista önmagában elegendő volna. Fel akarom tenni az i-re a pontot. A „harcos szóval egyetemben akarom visszahozni. Úgy sokkal dögösebb. Olyan sokáig volt már r...
All that summer, as I end up in his flat over and over, drinking his wine, having his bad pervy sex, and then lying on the bed, talking about Auden’s influence on Morrissey, I feel like we’re in a hug...