Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.
What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.
I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
When you do men's wear, it's less about thinking outside the box than about pushing the walls of the box outward. Men want to be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.
Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
Simone: You act like you're so oppressed. You guys are kings of the school. What are you bitching about?
Zeus Carver: No riddle is gonna stop this motherfucker? Simon Gruber: No code, no riddle, no fancy little countdown.
Simon Bishop: The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself.
Simon Bishop: If you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
