Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community. . .
If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid. ’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear. ’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.
I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens.
This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit.
As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby. ' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed. ' 'Don't you feel like we're soul. . . '