89 Quotes by Michelle Dean

Journalism by women is the price the man's world pays for having disappointed them. Here at their best are the unforgiving eye, the unforgetting ear, the concealed hatpin style.

We're all stuck with each other, stuck with the history of those who've preceded us. You may make your own way, but you always do it in the streams and eddies forded by others, no matter how much you personally like or dislike them, agree or disagree with them, wish that you were able to transcend this whole situation.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters.