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...
The Fear is my Second Coming. When everyone in the world admits they’re going to die, we’ll really start getting some stuff done.
That is the work of your teenage years - to build up and tear down and build up again, over and over, endlessly... They do not tell you this when you are fourteen, because the people who would tell yo...
She might as well be telling me a story of how she once confused 'Push' for 'Pull' on a door, then banning me from using doors again - 'Lest you also be betrayed by doors.
She doesn’t like the makeup, either. I once nearly blinded myself with a mascara brush, she says, looking querulously at my eyeliner. I don’t want to point out that that says far more about her than i...
Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls.
Resolver não ter filhos é uma decisão muito, muito difícil para uma mulher: a atmosfera realmente fica bem pesada quando alguém diz Escolhi não ter ou Para ser sincera, isso me parece um horror. Chama...
Practically the first action of the Neanderthal—on the happy day he evolved out of the monkey egg—was to draw a picture on a cave wall of a man with an enormous willy. Or, indeed, perhaps it was the f...
One of the little sorrows of being cool is that similarly cool people are too cool to ever come over and tell you you're cool - because that's just not cool. And so,gradually, the entire point of bein...
No puedo creer que hayaos llegado a un punto en el que nos cuesta dinero tener un coño. Nos están obligando a pagar por el cuidado y mantenimiento de nuestra entrepierna como si se tratara de un jardí...
Necesitamos recuperar urgentemente la palabra feminismo. Cuando las estadísticas señalan que sólo el 29% de las mujeres norteamericanas se describirían a si mismas como feministas, y sólo un 42% de la...
Lines and grayness are natures equivalent of telling you not to fuck with someone. The equivalent of the yellow and black banding on a wasp or the markings on the back of a black widow spider. Lines a...
Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go.
Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.
La forma más rápida y fácil de acabar con los buenos momentos es poner en ellos demasiadas expectativas (p. 221).
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 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 exhausting b...
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...