And having a cleaner is nothing to do with feminism. If a middle-class woman is engaging in anti-feminist activity by hiring a woman to do the cleaning, then surely a middle-class man is engaging in c...
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...
After all, everyone is bisexual after 11pm.
A lo largo de los siglos, se pueden leer historias de mujeres que, contra todo pronóstico, llegaron a ser mujeres de verdad, pero que acabaron transgrediendo. siendo infelices, viendo coartada su libe...
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...
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...
My old life was over, and I know - as I had always suspected - that kissing John Kite is the greatest luxury there is.
Én egyfolytában lehetséges kapcsolatokról fantáziálok. Egyfolytában. Úristen, kamaszéveimben kurvára tragikus méreteket öltött. Alig léteztem a valóságban. Valamiféle… szex-Narniában éltem. Szerelmi é...
Woman in heels stands a statistical likelihood of ending her evening with her shoes in her handbag, barefoot and demanding a piggyback to the taxi stand in order to keep her tights clean. Men are inva...
When cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible.
There is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits.
The only plan I’ve come up with is writing. I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have no infras...
Inside them, no one’s having fun.Instead, people are expressing needs (to earn money, to see a woman’s skin) in pretty much the most depressing way possible.
Imagine what we’ll be able to build when we really need something. When the floods start, and the graphs spike red, and we panic. When the last tiger dies, followed by the last polar bear, and the las...
You’ve never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It’s like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.
You, in turn, observe yourself from a distance, simply astonished by the quantities of love you manufacture. It is endless. Your adoration may grow weary but it will never end: it becomes the fuel of...
You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just...disappe...
You are the new religion. You are the new craze. You are the next stage in evolution. You are so palpably my superior, in every way, that I tremble like a child in your presence. You make my head spin...
Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.
Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.