Feminism nd femininity is not mutually exclusive.
Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretendin...
Depression was what happened to Americans, with their self-absolving need to turn everything into an illness.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. S...
Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would...
We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.
They laughed and she sensed, between them, a vulgar and delicious female bond.
There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.
The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish is was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think myself as...
She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles...
Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women.
Look at you. You're the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn't what you are enough?
He turned to her and said, About time, when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.
Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
Culture does not make people. People make culture.
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same? I
Because you are a girl is never a reason for anything. Ever.
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.