Megan

“Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“As a woman I was taught to always be hungry...We could eat just about anything / We might even eat your hate up like love."
To me, that perfectly summed up being a young girl. It was the first time someone put into words my sense of alienation, the feeling that all these institutions and stories we'd been taught to hold as sacred often had very little to do with my own lived experiences.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men—cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? I was going to say that perhaps women are born with a cooking gene until I remembered that the majority of famous cooks in the world—who are given the fancy title of “chef”—are men.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl