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I. Hate. This. Man. Completely.

“Americans adore systems. We want a system that obscures the system so that we feel comforted by there being both a system and a conspiracy system behind the system”

“I like it when men look at me as if they want to devour me. I find it deeply entertaining. It becomes annoying only when they start talking, as if I’d have any interest in anything that comes out of their mouths”

“You put on the right makeup, and you look invincible. You feel like a warrior. You will still be a woman, but you will wear this on the outside so that on the inside, you will stand tall as a man. Do you understand?”

“There are things that simply won’t do, and anything that tries to make tofu something other than what it is—an unappetizing excuse for protein with the texture of boiled pencil eraser and the flavor of brown paper towels wetted with weak tea—is one of them.”

“She was inconsequential to me until her actions impacted my life.”

“Funny how something as flimsy as a string of ones and zeros can be so massy. ”

“I could, in short, support, nourish, pleasure, and protect myself. I felt like a proud parent of a devious mind.”

“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never know too much.”

“You can’t be a woman without protection. Condoms fail. Pepper spray can be turned against you. Information almost never does.”

“I didn’t fuck anyone I couldn’t ruin.”

“Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk. ”

“Prison may be the hell of other people, but at least it’s not a hell of people you love.”

“It’s not that women psychopaths don’t exist; it’s that we fake it better than men.”

“Time binds us, time flattens us out, time makes us familiar. So much time, so many people. I’ve never liked people, and now I like them less.”