“My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.”
― Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
― Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
“...insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality...”
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“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
― Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
― Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
“Who's to blame when your kid goes nuts? Is it a blessing to not have children? 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' became a hit cult book for women without offspring who were finally able to admit they didn't want to give birth. They felt complete, thank you very much, and lived in silent resentment for years at other women's pious, unwanted sympathy toward them for not having babies. With even gay couples having children these days, aren't happy heterosexual women who don't want to have kids the most ostracized of us all? To me they are beautiful feminists. If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.”
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“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
― Autobiography of Red
― Autobiography of Red
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