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.
I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all.
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...
You are whom you surround yourself with.
We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.
These are the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me. This is my truth.
The unspeakable will be televised.
She didn't care if he was telling the truth. Milly felt nothing but she was very good at making men think otherwise. Sometimes, she nearly convinced herself.
Often in literary criticism, writers are told that a character isn't likable, as if a character's likability is directly proportional to the quality of a novel's writing.
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as m...
People tend to assume that everyone moves through the world the way they do.
To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance,
This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive.
The ladies in her classes loved to speak to Caridad in broken Spanish, to show her they were comfortable with her ethnicity despite the paleness of their skin and the wealth of their husbands.
Maybe I’m a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a di...
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face...
Also enjoyed that the orthopedic surgeon was incredibly attractive, knew it, and had the swagger of a man who is very good at what he does and very well compensated for that work. That was Saturday.
Writing this book is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. To lay myself so vulnerable has not been an easy thing. To face myself and what living in my body has been like has not been an easy thing...
When you can't find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.