Troy Terwilliger’s Reviews > Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman > Status Update

“I’m a narcissist, he jokes. But i don’t want to date my own reflection.”

Name calling… death wish…

Joan Rivers—genius!

“Look at pictures of fat women on the internet until it doesn’t make you uncomfortable anymore.”

“I thought at the time that love was perseverance.”

Lindy West fights back against this by simply being a complicated, loud, sexual, deeply loved, and loving adult woman who refuses to play either of those assigned roles. She demands the full spectrum of adult humanity.

Miss Piggy is kind of a rapist. She should respect Kermit’s bodily autonomy.