Tabloid Quotes

“Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our naivety has left us convinced that the people with whom we sometimes talk about other people behind their backs will never talk about us behind our backs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.”
― Sara Sheridan

“Wondering about other people’s private affairs is a one-man gossip.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is still gossip even if everything that is said is true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Careless of her own life, the princess sought to protect the precious new life first. This is in contrast to her cousins, Princesses Akiko and Noriko, who shoved their imperial guards in front of them." Mariko stops and takes one overexcited breath. Her cheeks are flushed. She is dreamy-eyed. This is what gets her excited. Good to know. "They compare you to the empress after the 1923 earthquake!" The empress rolled up her sleeves and laid bricks for a new school. She refused to leave until the town was fed, the children safe. There is a famous picture of her hugging a mother who lost her son, both of their cheeks coated in dust. "They end with calling you our very own royal."
Words fail me. Mariko seems to know I need a private moment. She places the article in my lap, then glides out the door. When she's gone, I pick it up. I rub my thumb over the last sentence of the article. It's not the royal part that warms me. No, it's the other two words. Very own, it says. Very own. Yes. That's me. A true daughter of Japan.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“These tabloids are the only things that get me through my dull and mundane commute. They are my way of reminding me that there are people way more screwed up then I am.”
― Amy Jacobson, A Ride of a Lifetime

“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana