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,...
In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list...
I was holding his hand. I banked every jealous look, and became limitlessly wealthy on them.
I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge - when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment - whether some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously it is not 100 percent infallible but, by...
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 no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cann...
I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.
Hay una generación entera que confunde ''feminismo'' con ''cualquier cosa relacionada con la mujer''.
David Cameron is a C-3P0 made of ham.
Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse.
There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.
I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use lou...
¿cuántas mujeres llegarán a la conclusión, suspirando, de que no pueden ser feministas porque tienen una señora de la limpieza? Pero, por supuesto, al contratar una ayuda doméstica, ninguna mujer está...
A reformed bitch is going to cost a fortune in stamps.
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...
Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane.
You never hear the word breasts in a positive scenario. Breasts are bad news.
When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying No, all that's left is what other people said Yes to before you were born. Really, No is no choice at...
When people ask workingwomen, When are you going to have a baby? what they’re really asking is When are you going to leave?
When did feminism become confused with Buddhism?
We were all wondering—could you stop the maracas