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 speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman - as I am. As I always am- you'd see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho do...
I do understand why women started to reject the word feminism. It ended up being invoked in so many bafflingly inappropriate contexts that—if you weren’t actually aware of the core aims of feminism an...
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 thrilled by the idea of killing myself. It seems like such a gratifyingly noble thing to do. A monster has come to town—me—and there is only one hero who can kill it: me.
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.
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 I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead.
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...
Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.
Las personas que han estado psicológicamente machacadas no empiezan a hacer cosas gloriosas, seguras, ostentosas nada más ser liberadas. En vez de eso, se quedan pensando: «¿Qué coño ha pasado?», inte...
It's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitche...
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a co...
Academics would read, and discussed at 11 p.m. on BBC4.
Yes, an old-fashioned feminist consciousness-raising still has enormous value. When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just ho...
With mounting concern, I learned that having a £600 handbag is like having a crush on the Joker in Batman. You MUST do it. It is an irreducible fact of being a woman.
They are all well-qualified members of the counter-culture. They are allowed to be here.
Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at...
The sudden noise through the headphones is disconcerting—a massive, evil-sounding slab of guitar, seemingly played with the sole intention of terrifying anyone who hasn’t yet lived through a roughly e...