We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we...
I was so free. I was free, in a prison of my own making.
We don’t carefully talk about rape. We live in a strange and terrible time for women. There are days when I think it has always been a strange and terrible time to be a woman.
These are the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me. This is my truth.
Sorrow allows us a freedom happiness does not.
One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need is your imagination. It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks, especi...
Often, when I read the news, I have to make sure I am not, in fact, reading The Onion.
Here I am showing you the ferocity of my hunger. Here I am, finally freeing myself to be vulnerable and terribly human. Here I am, reveling in that freedom. Here. See what I hunger for and what my tru...
Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. 'What right do...
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the wor...
When I read, I could forget.
The older I get the less the world makes sense. I
It is often women who pay the price for what men want.
We need to get to a place where we discuss privilege by way of observation and acknowledgment rather than accusation. We need to be able to argue beyond the threat of privilege. We need to stop playin...
People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up.
When I wrote, it was so easy to be happy.
We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereoty...
This is no way to live but this is how I live.
There was nothing you could do but what you did. Do you hear me? This
Sorrow allows us a freedom that happiness does not.