Judy Gordon

“Being a woman is a pain in the ass. You have to look “good.” Your hair needs to be neat—not just combed through, but “done.” Blow-dried, ironed, curled, sprayed. Your face needs to be enhanced. Foundation, powder, eye shadow, mascara, lipstick, blush, contour. Your clothes have to look sharp, too. And you can never wear the same thing twice—at least not in the same week. A guy can throw on the same suit every single day for a year and no one would notice. I’m not exaggerating. An Australian broadcaster tested it out. His coanchor, a woman, kept getting letters, e-mails, and tweets from viewers criticizing what she was wearing. He was appalled. He never got notes. So he wore the same blue suit day in and day out. Three hundred sixty-five days. Surely someone would complain. No one did. “No one has noticed,” he said at the time. “No one gives a shit.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

“Information coming directly from a politician or his team, without being vetted by reporters, is little more than propaganda.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

“The point isn’t whether or not Trump is specifically interested in hurting me or any other journalist. It’s that his comments put us in danger.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

“Jimmy Breslin say, “Beware always of the loudmouth taking advantage of the situation and appealing to a crowd’s meanest nature.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History