There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in...
How amazing to go to a gig thinking of nothing but how loud you will shout; how hard you will dance; how much you will sweat; how tightly you will hug your friends, as your favourite song plays. How a...
A palavra é um prêmio que bilhões de mulheres, durante o decorrer da história humana, lutaram para obter.
After all, it will be hard to oppress a generation who’ve been brought up on pop-stars with fire coming out of their tits.
Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a...
Traditional feminism would tell you that we should concentrate on the big stuff like pay inequality, female circumcision in the Third World, and domestic abuse. And they are, obviously, pressing and d...
Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the cl...
Mert a feminizmus célja nem egy bizonyos nőtípus létrehozása. Az a gondolat cseszi el olyan régóta a feminizmust, hogy vannak inherens módon „jó és „rossz nőtípusok – az a tévhit, hogy „mi nem fogadha...
I adore Janis Joplin, who sixties herself to death.
For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.
First class is a simple visual representation of who has all the money in the world: guys who look like this.
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
As with winning the lottery, or becoming famous—there is no manual for becoming a woman,
You don’t live in London. You play London - to win. That’s why we’re all here. It is a city full of contestants, each chasing one of a million possible prizes: wealth, love, fame. Inspiration.
You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.
We need a temporary cessation in people having any opinions about any women, ever. I propose a, say, five-year moratorium on having opinions about women, in order to let one generation of girls get fr...
These days, if your child announced that they wanted to be a politician most people would react as if they had come down to the breakfast table and said, 'Mother, Father – I've decided to become a mas...
So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?
So far, the only plan I’ve come up with is writing. I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have n...