Into the center—Queen’s Square. This is the heart of Wolverhampton’s youth scene—our Left Bank, our Haight-Ashbury, our Soho. To the right, five skaters. To the left, three goths, sitting around the M...
In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult book...
In 2010, Iceland—with a lesbian prime minister and a parliament that is 50 percent female—became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reasons. I
I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I’ve read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It’s one of only three plans I have. I
I will work out exactly how - with my no money, no money at all, until I actually receive my first, dawdling pay-cheque - I will get to Birmingham later. Perhaps Birmingham will, in the next week, mov...
I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four c...
I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
I am an enthusiast who's been pretending to be a cynic. But I have been correctly labeled now. I am for things - not against them. I must remember this. Mainly because this is more fun. It's exhaustin...
Hazaérek, és ott sírok az ajtó előtt. Őszintén szólva a ház túlzsúfolt a síráshoz. Már kipróbáltam odabenn – hüppögések közepette magyarázza az ember valakinek, hogy miért sír, aztán a felénél bejön m...
Ha egyszerűen őszintén vállaljuk azt, hogy kik vagyunk, a csatát félig megnyertük. Ha szarul érzed magad mindattól, amit a magazinokban és a lapokban olvasol – ne vedd meg őket! Ha felháborít, hogy a...
Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.
Evenings never end - they just, without you noticing, turn into tomorrow.
Don’t call it sexism. Call it manners instead. When a woman blinks a little, shakes her head like Columbo, and says, I’m sorry, but that sounded a little . . . uncivil, a man is apt to apologize. Beca...
Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine. Kylie Minogue is feminine. I am . . . femi-none.
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...
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...
Because I am fully aware of what the word fat means—what it really means, when you say it, or think it. It’s not just a simple, descriptive word like brunette or 34. It’s a swear word. It’s a weapon....
Apesar de todas as pessoas que tentaram abusar e destratar do feminismo, essa continua sendo a palavra de que precisamos. Nenhuma outra serve.
And there’s your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by, all of them have some potential for some perverted, self-destructive...
And how are . . . Mummy’s stitches? This, I was slightly thrown by. I knew my mother had had forty-two stitches after the birth, and that she was washing the stitches every day with warm salty water—s...