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.
We live now in a glorious age which we might term 'Post Frozen'. Frozen – the feminist Disney movie where the idiot sexy prince turns out to be a betraying motherfuck, and the whole plot revolves arou...
THERE ARE MEN OUT THERE HAVING SEX WITH BICYCLES. Men don’t remotely care if you’re wearing sexy underpants or not.
Shut up, Ed—the world below us has turned into a map. A real map! The woods look like the Woodland: Deciduous markings of Ordnance Survey. It is just as they drew it! Who knew! Who knew you could put...
Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All the Patriarchal Bullshit.
Or perhaps we should just junk the whole idea of gettingmarried in the first place. I’m generally against anything whereyou’re supposed to change your name. When else do you getnamed something else? O...
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...
Kun kyynisyydestä tulee oletuskieli, leikkisyys ja kekseliäisyys katoavat. Kyynisyys jynssää kulttuurin kuin kloori, se pyyhkii pois miljoonia pieniä, orastavia ideoita. Kyynisyyden vastaus kaikkeen o...
It’s exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.
In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more vali...
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.
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...
Going blind every time you drain a boiling pan of pasta, because it steams up your glasses real bad.
For 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, soc...
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.
A gig, I realise now, is a place where people come together and give permission for anything to happen. Things can be said and shouted and sung; people get pissed; people get kissed - there is a commu...
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...