Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
Babies being given to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless.
As I’ve not been kissed before, I’m not really sure how you activate this function on a man.
As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal.
Anger is just fear, brought to the boil.
And if your mind tears, do not fear that, either. Depression takes a layer of skin off – so accept that you feel more of the world than most people. Did you hear what I said? YOU FEEL MORE OF THE WORL...
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...
1) Nem akarom, hogy a kedvenc hírességeim emberibbek legyenek. A művészetnek olyan színtérnek kell lennie, ahol újraalkothatod és felülmúlhatod önmagad. Nem akarom, hogy egy csomó hétköznapi alak mász...
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... disapp...
You actually don’t exist while you’re in your bedroom, I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. Teenage girls in bedrooms aren’t real.
When did feminism become confused with Buddhism? Why on earth have I, because I’m a woman, got to be nice to everyone? And why have women—on top of everything else—got to be particularly careful to be...
When cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible. Cynicism scours through a culture like bleach, wiping out millions of small, seedling ideas. Cynicism means you...
This is why museums are so wonderful: walking around, observing mankind's joyride from slime to WiFi, you see incredible ironwork, inspirational pottery, fabulous vellums, and exquisite paintings, and...
This is the terrible thing about learning everything from books—sometimes you don’t know how to say the words. You know the ideas, but you cannot discuss them with people with any confidence. And so y...
The truth is, when you are very poor, that 11 percent bites into the very bones of your existence. Eleven percent less means choosing between electricity, or food—electricity and food that is already...
Nearly everything so far has been the creation of men—and a liberal, right-on denial of it makes everything more awkward and difficult in the long run. Pretending that women have had a pop at all this...
In short, how can you tell when some sexism is happening to you? Well, in this matter, what ultimately aids us is to simply apply this question to the issues: Is this polite? If we--the entire populat...
I don’t want children anyway, Caz says. So I am getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want t...
Every atom of you, and me, once swirled around inside them. We are all stardust. We are golden. We are unique kaleidoscope rearrangements of everything that has gone before, and everything that will e...
Even with my freewheeling open-mindedness, I couldn't fancy Dennis - a man whose ears looked like two long pieces of bacon.