As soon as my friends and I start dating for real, we enter an exhausting paradox – a belief that, in love, everything is not as it seems: the conviction that there is a common state of affairs whereb...
As I have said, in the same way that you can tell if some sexism is happening to you by asking the question 'Is this polite, or not?' you can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being...
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 the great thing about a Zero Tolerance policy on Patriarchal Broken Window Bullshit is this: in the 21st century, we don't need to march against size zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing...
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 so I have brought this pint for him—a proper Irish pint, from Ireland. This pint—brought through the sky, and over the sea. I am finally buying my old man a good pint of Guinness. As I walk throug...
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.
Algún día encontrarás una versión de ti misma que hará que te besen, o que te granjeará amistades, o que te inspirará, y tú tomarás buena nota: te quedarás toda la noche, afinando, y luego improvisará...
Actually I call them Simon and Garfunkel because one’s bigger than the other.—but
A rohadék nemi hormonok pajkos gyermekből vérző, bőgő, ájuldozó mosónővé változtattak. Ezektől a hormonoktól egyáltalán nem érzem magam nőiesnek: minden éjjel nyomorultan fekszem az ágyamban, és a bug...
Those boys throw gravel at me while I ran up a hill – but I don't want my diary to pity me. As far as my diary will know, I had the philosophical upper hand there.
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...
Úgy döntöttem, hogy ha női cipőkről van szó, lényegében sztrájkolok. Kiszállok az egész cipellő-világból, amíg nem képesek valami olyat tervezni, amiben több mint egy órán át lehet járni a táncra perd...
Turn our unsaid things into our life’s work.
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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 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...
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...
Women, it is presumed, will always end up having babies. They might go through silly, adolescent phases of pretending that it’s something that they have no interest in – but, when push comes to shove,...