All through those stumbling, mortifying, amazing years, I thought that what I want to be was a woman. [...] But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Ju...
A feminizmussal pontosan ugyanaz a probléma, mint a „politikai korrektséggel: egyfolytában úgy hajtogatják, hogy nem is tudják, mit jelent.
A fehérnemű mellett a szerelem is a nő dolga. A nők arra valók, hogy beléjük szeressenek. Amikor a nőket sújtó nagy tragédiákról beszélünk, miután a háborúkat és a sebesüléseket letárgyaltuk, az érint...
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...
When cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible.
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.
[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 Simone de Beauvoir said, One is not born a woman—one becomes one, she didn’t know the half of it. In
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...
We were all wondering—could you stop the maracas
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.
Things were going to happen to me last night that I did not like—and I stopped them. I have never prevented my own doom before. I have never stood in the path of certain unhappiness and told myself—lo...
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...
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 thing is, when you start smoking, you think you’ve bought a fun baby dragon. You think you’ve charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later...
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.