Jessa Crispin

I believe in free will.

— Jessa Crispin

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go…

— Jessa Crispin

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very…

— Jessa Crispin

I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

— Jessa Crispin

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

— Jessa Crispin

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

— Jessa Crispin

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

— Jessa Crispin

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I…

— Jessa Crispin

I have a really good life and I really like it.

— Jessa Crispin

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and…

— Jessa Crispin

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

— Jessa Crispin

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world…

— Jessa Crispin

I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

— Jessa Crispin

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the…

— Jessa Crispin

“There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.”

— Jessa Crispin

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

— Jessa Crispin

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that…

— Jessa Crispin

I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

— Jessa Crispin

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of…

— Jessa Crispin

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste,…

— Jessa Crispin

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.

— Jessa Crispin

“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering,…

— Jessa Crispin

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

— Jessa Crispin

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

— Jessa Crispin

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin