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...
In the 21st century, wedon’t need to march against size zero models, risible pornography,lap-dancing clubs and Botox. We don’t need to riot, or go on hungerstrike. There’s no need to throw ourselves u...
Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider.
Ám természetesen semmi értelme, hogy a „kövér szót ilyen hatalommal ruházzuk fel. Ahogy korábban arra buzdítottam mindenkit, hogy székre állva kiáltsa, „HARCOS FEMINISTA, most arra szeretném, hogy szé...
The undeniable feeling that, as you castigate a troll, he’s rubbing his Red Dwarf mouse pad against his crotch and sighing, Angry liberal women typing at me. Oh yah. That’s how I like it.
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.
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...
A reformed bitch is going to cost a fortune in stamps.
[When I was with the wrong man], it felt like our relationship was a gigantic puzzle - a huge existential and emotional quiz that, if I applied myself to enough, I would solve and gain the result of T...
Yeah. They wake up a couple of times in the night, but, you know, that is the ineffable nature of the young! I said. This woman was bound to be impressed by what an engaged big sister I was. Also, my...
Would Jane Austen's characters have spent pages and pages discussing the relationships in their social circle if they'd been a bit more control of their own destinies? Would women fret themselves half...
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it’s actually far more sensible—and much quicker—to cry alone.
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
When Simone de Beauvoir said, One is not born a woman—one becomes one, she didn’t know the half of it. In
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.
What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; bu...
Weddings do women no good at all. They’re a viper’s pit of waste and despair. And nearly every aspect of them reverberates badly against the very people who love them the most: us. Our love for a wedd...
We were all wondering—could you stop the maracas
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...
Things happen in these kinds of towns that could never happen anywhere else—proud, poor kids make things happen with more heat, and intensity, and attack, than could ever be managed somewhere with ple...