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
Evenings never end - they just, without you noticing, turn into tomorrow.
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...
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...
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....
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...
At 14, I am an experiment. Inside, I am resurrected. I am in the middle of the kind of explosion of perspective that, in later years, I will pay a great deal of money to emulate in nightclubs, and at...
And - just as with winning the lottery, or becoming famous - there is no manual for becoming a woman, even though the stakes are so high. God knows, when I was 13, I tried to find one. You can read ab...
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...
A linguagem nos diz exatamente o que pensamos das mulheres solteiras — está tudo lá, na diferença entre solteirão e ficou para titia. Os solteirões têm tudo. As titias precisam correr atrás de tudo, e...
Fat such power is, of course, no good at all. . . . Say it until you lose the nervousness around it, say it until it seems normal--like the word tray--and eventually becomes meaningless. Point at thin...
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it’s actually far more sensible—and much quicker—to cry alone.
We should have the lady-balls to say, Yeah—I like the look of this world. And I’ve been here for a good while, watching. Now—here’s how I’d tweak it. Because we’re all in this together. We’re all just...
Ugyanabban a hónapban, amikor Parker „Rezümé-jét olvasom – „A penge fáj / A folyó nyirkos / A sav csúfít / Méreg görcsöt okoz / A gáz szagos / Akár élhetnék is –, elkezdek Sylvia Platht olvasni, aki,...
This is where rock happens! This is where young people come! Rock music smells of toilet and cigarettes!
The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.
The main thing I’ve noticed, however, is how unreasonable, self-absorbed and permanently outraged caffeine has made me.
Shit, he says helplessly. No—piss, I say, like Oscar fucking Wilde.