I would love someone to empirically tell me what I should do. Having to guess - improvise - all the time is so wearying.
I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse. It’s really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about kee...
Hay una generación entera que confunde ''feminismo'' con ''cualquier cosa relacionada con la mujer''.
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...
If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, I'm just going to take my bra off, you know you are intimate friends.
If you fancy someone hot who is already married, just wait a while - their wife might catch fire. (Jane Eyre)
I will NOT be reading when we fly. My face is pressed against the window. When we fly, I am going to be absolutely present for every meter and every cloud. No one will EVER have flown more than me.
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...
Because there’s a silent, shrugging, stoical acceptance of all the things in the world we can never be part of: shorts, swimming pools, strappy dresses, country walks, roller-skating, ra-ra skirts, ve...
Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: Run.
Throughout history, you can read the stories of women who—against all the odds—got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled, or ruined, because all around them society was...
Think about how brave it is, to do this: to queue up, and meet your hero. There’s something incredibly intimate about reading, or listening, or looking at someone else’s art. When it truly moves you—w...
Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: ontic anxiety is the fear of fate and death. The second is moral anxiety, from guilt, or condemnation. The third is spirit...
You can’t meet your heroes—because they are, in the end, just an idea, that lives inside you.
We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people.
There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you’re comfortably middle-class, what’s the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 per cent and leave your bins, unemptied...
There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.
The more women argue, loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.
The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.
Tehát ha azt kérdeznék, tudom-e már, hogy kell nőnek lenni, így felelnék: „Őszintén szólva nagyjából igen. Mert ha az ebben a könyvben szereplő történetek egyetlen revelációvá állnak össze, az a köve...