89 Quotes by Michelle Dean

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.