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.
And you will be quite on your own when you do all this. There is no academy where you can learn to be yourself; there is no line manager slowly urging you toward the correct answer. You are midwife to...
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...
And do not think you shouldn’t be standing on that chair, shouting, I AM A FEMINIST! if you are a boy. A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. A male feminist should ABS...
A nők tudják, hogy a munkahelyen egy lazán, hétköznapian vagy akár lomposan öltözött nőt nem vesznek olyan komolyan, mint egy hasonlóan öltözött férfi kollégát. A farmeres, tornacipős csajokat nem lép...
A gig, I realize now, is a place where people come together and give permission for anything to happen. Things can be said and shouted and sung; people get pissed; people get kissed-there is a communa...
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...
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...
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 the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.
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...
Even with my freewheeling open-mindedness, I couldn't fancy Dennis - a man whose ears looked like two long pieces of bacon.
Don't you think women would be happier if Layla had a whole chorus about Eric Clapton watching Patti Boyd trying to climb over a park fence, pissed, in order to retrieve a shoe she threw in there, for...
De azzal, ha valaki önmagával harcol, az a baj, hogy akkor is veszít, ha nyer. Egy idő után – sérülten, kimerülten – vagy elfogadja, hogy nővé kell válnia – hogy nő –, vagy vége. Ez a serdülőkor brutá...
But that is all part of becoming an adult. That is the difference between girls and women. That they are finally ready to hear the secret of what makes them them. That they are strong enough - for goo...