I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
Hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible
As with winning the lottery, or becoming famous—there is no manual for becoming a woman,
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.
You can be whatever you want—so long as you’re sure it’s what you actually want, rather than one of two equally dodgy choices foisted onto you.
You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.
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 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...
I can assure you—we have a lot of experience in being amateur! I say when she mentions the amateur experience. She doesn’t laugh. No one ever laughs when I make these kinds of jokes. When Bill Murray...
I am so hot for Chevy. I have even imagined what my first line to him will be – the one that will capture his heart. ‘Chevy Chase?’ I will say, at a party very closely modelled on the ones I’ve seen i...
However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever ra...
De momento, el único plan que tengo es escribir. Sé escribir, porque escribir (a diferencia de la coreografía, la arquitectura o conquistar reinos) es algo que puedes hacer aunque seas pobre y estés s...
But the problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose. At some point – scarred and exhausted – you either accept that you must become a woman – that you are a woman – or you die. Th...
A palavra é um prêmio que bilhões de mulheres, durante o decorrer da história humana, lutaram para obter.
Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, and animalistic. No clas...
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
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.
Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal.
Still, life goes on, doesn't it? It really always does. It keeps bloody going on. I mean it in a good way, of course. However much you fuck things up, life just keeps going on, washing you downriver -...
So what do you do when you build yourself—only to realize you built yourself with the wrong things? You rip it up and start again. That is the work of your teenage years—to build up and tear down and...