La forma más rápida y fácil de acabar con los buenos momentos es poner en ellos demasiadas expectativas (p. 221).
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR ELTON JOHN!
Komolyan, bármit, amiről azt állítják, hogy „életed legszebb napja lesz, messzire el kell kerülni. Ritkán süt el jól.
I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big. I’m currently wearing a pair that could have been used as a fire b...
I’m going to be the Beatles of kissing.
It's worth remembering that [having a baby] is not of vital use to you as a woman. Yes, you could learn thousands of interesting things about love, strength, faith, fear, human relationships, genetic...
It really is important you say these words out loud. I AM A FEMINIST. If you feel you cannot say it—not even standing on the ground—I would be alarmed. It’s probably one of the most important things a...
In the 21st century, we don’t need to march against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don’t need to riot or go on hunger strikes. There’s no need to throw ourselv...
In the 20th century- an age in thrall to the new- women turn out to be the newest thing of all; still packed up in cellophane, still folded up in the box, having played dead for the length of history....
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 like the blue one too, baby he said, companionably.
I don't need to critique things, or have an opinion, or pose, with John - we just go around being alive, and pointing at things. We're just, simply, in the world. It had never occurred to me what a wo...
I can’t help but notice that in a society obsessed with fat—so eager in the appellation, so vocal in its disapproval—the only people who aren’t talking about it are the only people whose business it r...
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...
Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.
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...
Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life.
Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day.
Because the secret of everyone who comes to London—who comes to any big city—is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home.
Attól, hogy nő vagyok, mi a fenének kellene mindenkihez kedvesnek lennem? És miért kellene a nőknek különösen ügyelniük arra, hogy mindenekfelett „kedvesek legyenek egymással, és „támogassák egymást?...