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 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've seen this idea put forward a hundred times - that a proper feminist would do her own hoovering, Germaine Greer cleans her own lavvy, and Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under that horse, hand...
I'm not going to be worshipped by some powerful, loaded, sword-wielding man who will change my life if I marry him. Because that is Aragon, son of Arathorn, and he doesn't exist.
I feel excitingly...free. 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 un...
I appear to have no time for blondes--except for Bugs Bunny, dressed up as a woman, as he seduces the fool Fudd. That is a woman I could be, definitely: a cartoon man-rabbit dressed up as a girl, tryi...
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...
Freely available, hardcore 21st-century pornography blasts through men’s and women’s sexual imaginations like antibiotics and kills all mystery, uncertainty, and doubt—good and bad.
For as I sit there, in pain, I suddenly notice I have changed. I am not self-loathing anymore. These billion cheap blackbirds inside me - beaking the wires of the cage, frantic - are now on the ground...
FURTHER NOTE: This plan can ONLY go wrong in the event of ants. Ants do NOT like being pissed on.
El cinismo restriega la cultura, como la lejía, eliminando de pequeñas ideas incipientes. El cinismo significa que tu respuesta automática es No. El cinismo significa que das por hecho que todo el mun...
Egy kamaszlánynak légiesnek és szexisnek kellene lennie. Egy kövér kamaszlány testének senki sem veszi hasznát, csak ő maga. Egy albatrosz. Egy túlméretezett fehér madár. Úgy vonszolom magammal, mint...
Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life.
Because 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.
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....
And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: Run.
And so to read is, in truth, to be in the constant act of creation. The old lady on the bus with her Orwell, the businessman on the Tube with Patricia Cornwell, the teenager roaring through Capote --...
And later, over a glass of wine -- because you drink wine now, because you are grown -- you will marvel over what you did. Marvel that, at the time, you kept so many secrets. Tried to keep the secret...
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...
All my life, I’ve thought that if I couldn’t say anything boys found interesting, I might as well shut up. But now I realize there was that whole other, invisible half of the world—girls—that I could...