Cada libro, cada teatro de ópera, cada lanzamiento espacial a la luna y cada manifiesto existen porque alguien, en algun lugar, prendió el silencio al ver entrar a otra persona y la habitación y luego...
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.
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.
At 19, I read a sentence that re-terraformed my head: The level of matter in the universe has been constant since the Big Bang.In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a spe...
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...
A feminizmussal pontosan ugyanaz a probléma, mint a „politikai korrektséggel: egyfolytában úgy hajtogatják, hogy nem is tudják, mit jelent.
A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas...to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say...Hello. We can hear you. The words survive...
They’re making new kinds of girls in America. Girls who don’t give a fuck. Girls who dare. Girls who do it because other girls do it. Girls who would like a girl like you.
Just go around being alive, and pointing at things. We’re just, simply, in the world. It had never occurred to me what a wonderful thing this was.
Actually wanted to fuck each other. Had to fuck each other. Imagine watching two people screwing at that early, white-hot stage of attraction when your pupils dilate just looking at each other, and yo...
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...
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 people suggest that what, all along, has been holding women back is other women bitching about each other, I think they’re severely overestimating the power of a catty zinger during a cigarette b...
When a woman says, I have nothing to wear! what she really means is, There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today. Because
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.