“Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
― How to be Both
― How to be Both
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.”
― Outline
― Outline
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