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“For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl ...”
“If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, its clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young womens sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about ho...”
“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We'r...”
“Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.”
“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”
“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering, that's the enemy. That is the only enemy worth...”
“There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.”
“I spoke on a panel once with a famous new age author/guru in leather pants and she said that the problem with women is that we don't "speak from our power," but from a place of victimization. As if...”
“Yes, we love the good men in our lives and sometimes, oftentimes, the bad ones too- but that we're not in full revolution against the lot of them is pretty amazing when you consider this truth: men...”
“If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not forced? The idea that these crimes are escapable is the blind optimism of men who don't underst...”
“Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable.”
“We have to imagine something before we can build the infrastructure that will allow it to exist. We have failed here on both fronts: in imagination and in reality. Our great weirdos, from Emily Dic...”
“Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.”
“When a hug is this big, you feel it for days.”
“Then please promise me you wont let go of the woman youve become. Do whatever it is you need to in order to be happy. You have people in your corner now. I cant promise that everything with Rowan w...”
“Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you”
“There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen”
“I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead”
“Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. Thats hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.”
“I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.”
