185 Quotes by Lindy West

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

I graduated in 2004 with an English degree and a case of imposter syndrome so intense that I convinced myself I “didn’t have enough ideas” to become a writer of any kind.

Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed to be angry about it.

I don’t dream of dying adorable; I dream of dying calloused and wise, of looking my husband in the eyes and saying, “Remember that thing we almost didn’t survive? Aren’t you so glad we did?

To be shrill is to reach above your station; to abandon your duty to soothe and please; in short, to be heard. I.

Willpower is real, but it needs the right conditions to thrive.

By 2019, the far Right’s unflagging message... has come to full fruition, its ultimate purpose revealed: to justify the stigmatization of care itself. It’s not just caring about the environment that’s effeminate and therefore despicable, it’s caring about anything. It’s care.

Like getting pregnant was my fault – as though my clinginess, my desperate need to be loved, my insistence that we were a ‘real’ couple and not two acquaintances who had grown kind of used to each other, had finally congealed into a hopeful, delusional little bundle and sunk its roots into my uterine wall.

Step Ten: Neglect to Tell the Heavy Metal Doofus You Lose Your Virginity to that It’s Your First Time and Then Bleed All Over His Bed “Okay, but, having your bed anointed with virgin’s blood is like the most metal thing ever, right?” “You should go.” Step.