This is Pat, he says, introducing me to a man who is also drunk. Because I’m Pat too! We’re two Pats! He’s a Protestant, he adds in a stagy whisper, but we’ve sorted it all out.
These hormones do not make me feel feminine: every night, I lie in bed feeling wrenched, and the bulge of my sanitary napkin in my kickers looks like a cock.
The thing is, I say to Paul Tillich, in my head, the thing is, Paul, that ultimately, I don’t think my anxiety is ontic, moral, or spiritual. I look at him. At the end of it all, I just need some mone...
The problem with the word vagina is that vaginas seem to be just straight-out bad luck. Only a masochist would want one, because only awful things happen to them. Vaginas get torn. Vaginas get examine...
The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things...
The main thing I’ve noticed, however, is how unreasonable, self-absorbed and permanently outraged caffeine has made me.
Porque el hecho de que una pareja heterosexual contrate a una señora de la limpieza se considera una traición al feminismo es algo que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza, a no ser que estés convencido de que...
People aren't their . We are not our art.
Of course, people discovering true love works out badly for everyone, really. I mean, it's okay in the end- once everyone settles down and stops making a big fuss about it. But fairly near the beginni...
Not all of them say ‘You’re shit!’ – some of them say ‘You’re great!’, but in a way, that’s worse. Because when lots of other people have said ‘You’re shit!’, you feel you have a duty to tell the peop...
Mi olyan rossz a királylányságban? Nos, személyes tapasztalatból tudom, hogy amitől felnőtt éveimben a legnagyobb megkönnyebbülést és szabadságot kaptam végül, az volt, hogy egyszer s mindenkorra felh...
Mert vissza kell állítanunk a „feminizmus szó státuszát. Igen nagy szükségünk van erre a szóra. Amikor a statisztika szerint az amerikai nők mindössze 29 – a brit nők 42 – százaléka vallja magát femin...
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...
Mert az emberek pontosan ugyanazért zabálnak, amiért isznak, dohányoznak, kefélnek mániákusan és drogoznak. Hogy tisztázzam a dolgokat, zabálás alatt itt nem az egyszerű, örömteli torkosságot értem –...
I’m learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn’t observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you’re...
In any just world, I should have been able to kick the front room door open, like Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, and shout OH YEAH. THAT HYMEN’S GONE. DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT, and then run round th...
In a world where you can get a spare kidney, a black-market Picasso or a ticket to ride into space, why can’t I see some actual sex? Some actual fucking from people who want to fuck each other? Some c...
In 2010, Iceland – with a lesbian prime minister, and a parliament which is 50 per cent female – became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reason...
I want to tell Caz – also a redhead – that I have finally found her another role model, aside from Woody Woodpecker, and Annie in Annie.
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...