“Personally, I find the idea that women are supposed to "love" shopping bizarre - nearly every woman I know wants to cry after 45 minutes of trawling the high street looking for a shirt and hits the gin with alacrity upon the sad occasions when jeans have to be found.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it’s actually far more sensible—and much quicker—to cry alone.”
― How To Be A Woman
― How To Be A Woman
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