You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
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.
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.
If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.
My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.