“sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often. Drink too much? Play the gregarious basket case. Hate your body? Slash and burn others so you… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the… — Lindy West Copy Share
The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality, but there's… — Lindy West Copy Share
“Honestly, this 'Where do you get your confidence?' chapter could be sixteen words long. Because there was really only one step to my body… — Lindy West Copy Share
“I never did manage to lose weight, though - not significantly - and my minor "successes" weren't through any eating patterns that could be… — Lindy West Copy Share
I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to… — Lindy West Copy Share
“So, what do you do when you're too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but also as… — Lindy West Copy Share
“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least… — Lindy West Copy Share
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the… — Lindy West Copy Share
“We do not stigmatize people with stomach flu. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.” — Lindy West Copy Share
“Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to bulk up.… — Lindy West Copy Share
Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other. — Lindy West Copy Share
“I hate being fat. I hate the way people look at me, or don't. I hate being a joke; I hate the disorienting limbo… — Lindy West Copy Share
“To be shrill is to reach above your station; to abandon your duty to soothe and please; in short, to be heard. I” — Lindy West Copy Share
“There are no “good” abortions and “bad” abortions, there are only pregnant people who want them and pregnant people who don’t, pregnant people who… — Lindy West Copy Share
“No, no one thought that a spontaneous gang rape was going to take place just then on the stage of the Laugh Factory. But… — Lindy West Copy Share
