We put a lot of responsibility on popular culture, particularly when some pop artifact somehow distinguishes itself as not terrible.
There were a great many people in my own life who saw my body before they ever saw or considered me.
Luck and loneliness, it would seem, are very compatible.
Later, I am still awake because I’m not very good at sleeping and I’m achy so I’m feeling tender toward him. Instead of nudging him awake, telling him to go home, I watch him sleep.
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appr...
We don’t all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us,
The problem with movements is that, all too often, they are associated only with the most visible figures, the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest, most provocative voices. But feminism...
Quando você tem sucesso de início em uma empreitada, acaba se convencendo de que facilmente repetirá esse sucesso.
Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.
If white writers can’t do better than to compare a cockroach to black skin, perhaps they should leave the writing of difference in more capable hands.
And still, when I am with my family, when we become that island unto ourselves, I allow myself to be a part of them. I am trying to forgive and make up for lost time, to close the distances I put betw...
And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.
What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. You
There is, I must admit, something very satisfying about making things from scratch, to know every dish in a meal was made by your own hands. As a lazy person, I'm a fan of premade things, but it was a...
People see bodies like mine and make their assumptions. They think they know the why of my body. They do not.
Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am committed to the issues important to the feminist movement.
I’ve always been a woman of contradiction. My true loves were and still are books and writing
I was always a good girl. I was a straight-A student, top of my class. I did as I was told. I was polite to my elders. I was good to my siblings. I went to church. It was very easy to hide how very ba...
I could easily become a shut-in, hiding from the cruelty of the world. Most days it takes all my strength and no small amount of courage to get dressed and leave the house.