185 Quotes by Lindy West

Everything is a product of its time, and the whole point of progress is to make the future better than the present.

Chris Tucker gives Jackie Chan his LAPD ID and tells him to pretend to be LAPD if anything goes sideways in the Foo Chow restaurant. Jackie Chan looks at the ID with Chris Tucker’s picture on it and says, “This won’t work—I’m not 6′1″!” And that’s just a gorgeously structured classic joke.

My mom, by contrast, never liked fantasy. When I was little, this made as much sense to me as not liking gravity or Gordon from Sesame Street. "I just like things that are true," she'd say. "Strong people fighting against the elements." I grill her so often on why she wasn't obsessed with dragons LIKE A NORMAL PERSON that it became the catchphrase in our house - strong people fighting against the elements.

Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the world fully informed about my body and reproductive health.

Everything is a product of its time, and the whole point of progress is to make the future better than the present. People make mistakes, and people grow, and culture grows along with them.

We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.

I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.

I desperately want to help, but the truth is, I don't know. I used to hate myself; eventually, I didn't anymore. I used to be shy; eventually, I made my living by talking too much.

I think we can all agree that this fully checks out and that indeed it is men who are the true victims of witch hunts. Which they invented. To kill women.