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...
Anger is just fear, brought to the boil.
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 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 szőr a női lét egyik legelső és legnagyobb gondja. Hívatlanul jelenik meg, úgyhogy döntést kell hozni róla – ami magunknak és a külvilágnak is azt jelzi, kik vagyunk. Mivel a kamaszkorral kezdődik a...
A szexizmus legnagyobbrészt onnan ered, hogy a férfiak megszokták, hogy mi vagyunk a vesztesek. Ez a probléma. Rossz a pozíciónk. Megszokták, hogy mi csak másodikak lehetünk, vagy diszkvalifikálnak a...
A pozitív mérleg viszont az, hogy mégsem vagyok egyedül, mert – mint ahogy már milliónyi magányos lányra és fiúra is – gondot viselnek rám a könyvek, a tévé és a zene. Boszorkányokon, farkasokon és a...
A habzsolás a szociális segítők által preferált függőség, és ezért tartják minden függőség között a legalacsonyabb rendűnek. Ezzel úgy cseszheti szét magát az ember, hogy közben teljesen működőképes m...
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...
Después de miles de años de machismo de mierda) Como es natural, las personas que han estado psicológicamente machacadas no empiezan a hacer cosas gloriosas, seguras, ostentosas nada más ser liberadas...
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...
They are furious and exhausted from having to explain to the men what the women have known all along.
Shit, he says helplessly. No—piss, I say, like Oscar fucking Wilde.
Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York’s best cocktail bar, after tipping a...
I’m neither pro-women nor anti-men. I’m just Thumbs up for the six billion.
It’s difficult to see the glass ceiling because it’s made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.
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.
I think it’s a delightful thing, for a young teenage girl to befriend someone of another generation. She is like a window into the past, I think to myself.
I sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!
I look at me in the monitor, and I can see me very quickly looking down at the poem in my hands and reading it very intently—because I don’t care what I look like. I am a poet, and a writer, and I dea...