So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?
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...
No estoy «a favor de las mujeres» ni «a favor de los hombres». Soy partidaria de los seis mil millones.
Krissi starts dancing toward me in a showy disco-jog. Still a bit hurt, I do vague, place-holding disco fingers at him.
Keith Richards is a man without regret. When I ask him if—given the chance to do it all over again—he’d start taking heroin, he doesn’t pause. Oh yes. Yes. There was a lot of experience in there—you m...
In the ‘Broken Windows’ theory, if a single broken window on an empty building is ignored, and not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may break into th...
I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure— pain.
Here’s the amazing thing about sex: you get a whole person to yourself, for the first time since you were a baby. Someone who is looking at you—just you—and thinking about you, and wanting you, and yo...
First class is a simple visual representation of who has all the money in the world: guys who look like this.
But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It´s like an insidious and destabilising mental illness.
In many ways, there is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits.
Your mind is the projection screen every writer steals; it is the firing of your neurones that makes every book come alive. You are the electricity that turns it on. A book cannot live until the touch...
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...
This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. Your fear it's going to change you forever. And you're right. It is. It's going to turn you into somethi...
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...
Porque esta exigencia de que todas las mujeres tengan hijos no tiene la menor lógica. Si te detienes a pensar un momento cómo está el mundo, te das cuenta de que están naciendo un montón de niños: el...
No estoy segura de que 'ser' sea algo innato en la mujer, que vengamos así programadas (...) se me ocurre que durante mucho tiempo, cuando has pasado milenios sin que te permitan hacer nada, tiendes a...
My fat years were when I was not human shaped. I was a 16-stone triangle, with inverted triangle legs, and no real neck. And that’s because I wasn’t doing human things. I didn’t walk or run or dance o...
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...
Kriss gives me a sibling-punch. 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,...