154 quotes found
Writer · English · 1975
English writer (born 1975)
“I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment, whether or not some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously, its not 100% infallible but by...”
“There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, ...”
“Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies bei...”
“When a woman says, I have nothing to wear!, what she really means is, Theres nothing here for who Im supposed to be today.”
“These days, however, I am much calmer - since I realised that its technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldnt be allowed to have a debate on womens p...”
“When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just how you feel in your own skin, women still wont often tell the truth to each o...”
“And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?”
“Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is...”
“Becoming a woman felt a bit like becoming famous. For, from being benevolently generally ignored the base-line existence of most children a teenage girl is suddenly fascinating to others, and get...”
“... motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.”
“It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.”
“The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.”
“We need a temporary cessation in people having any opinions about any women, ever. I propose a, say, five-year moratorium on having opinions about women, in order to let one generation of girls get...”
“Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.”
“I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my per...”
“When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no c...”
“But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We ca...”
“However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever...”
“Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowe...”
“The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person w...”
