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 sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!
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...
He’s not a person—he’s a place you travel to. Everything changes when you’re with him. He is the mayor of good times. I remember a quote I read: It was no man you wanted, believe me—it was a world.
Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.
Después de la fugaz promesa de que la revolución sexual liberaría el léxico sexual de las mujeres, ése se ha visto reducido de nuevo a una serie de caricaturas estrechas de miras enojosas y explotador...
Caz doesn’t like ‘nearness’. It makes her extremely irascible. In a three-bedroom council house with seven people in it, she is almost perpetually furious.
Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista? – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba. OSTOBA! A melltartó a b...
But they didn’t. Because simply being able to vote isn’t the same as true equality. It’s difficult to see the glass ceiling because it’s made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more bi...
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?...
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...
Anyone who has a sibling will know what that is—a punch that really hurts quite a lot, and that is meant to, but that you cannot take offense at, or retaliate against, because you went out of your way...
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 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 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...