185 Quotes by Lindy West

I get to choose what kind of person to be: open or closed, generous or cruel, spiritual jaguar or clinging ghost, a lazy writer⁠—it's easy to hate things⁠—or a versatile one?

I get to choose what kind of person to be: open or closed, generous or cruel, spiritual jaguar or clinging ghost, a lazy writer⁠—it's easy to hate things⁠—or a versatile one.

There are no magic bullets. Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible. It resists deconstruction.

Sometimes people on the defensive rebound into compassion. Sometimes smart, good people are just a little behind.

Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.

There's a type of person who thinks he's getting away with something by not believing in anything. But not believing in anything IS believing in something. It's active, not passive. To believe in nothing is to change nothing. It means you're endorsing the present, and the present is a horror[...] Irreverence is the ultimate luxury item.

When I was finally ready to stand out, the realization that the mainstream didn't want me was freeing and galvanizing. It gave me something to fight for. It taught me that women are an army.

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

Reality TV, as we all know by now, is scripted. This is the most frightening vestige of President Trump's TV career: in his world, reality doesn't dictate the script; the script dictates reality. When reality doesn't favor or flatter him ,he simply says what he wants to be true. And in the minds of his fanatics - absolutely blitzed on a decade or three of antimedia, antiacademia, paranoiac propaganda - it becomes true. It's a kind of magic.