Lindy West

“Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I…

— Lindy West

The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality,…

— Lindy West

“Honestly, this 'Where do you get your confidence?' chapter could be sixteen words long. Because there was really only one step to…

— Lindy West

“I never did manage to lose weight, though - not significantly - and my minor "successes" weren't through any eating patterns that…

— Lindy West

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…

— Lindy West

“So, what do you do when you're too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but…

— Lindy West

“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it…

— Lindy West

I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors…

— Lindy West

“We do not stigmatize people with stomach flu. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.”

— Lindy West

“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…

— Lindy West

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the…

— Lindy West

“I hate being fat. I hate the way people look at me, or don't. I hate being a joke; I hate the…

— Lindy West

“To be shrill is to reach above your station; to abandon your duty to soothe and please; in short, to be heard.…

— Lindy West

“There are no “good” abortions and “bad” abortions, there are only pregnant people who want them and pregnant people who don’t, pregnant…

— Lindy West

“No, no one thought that a spontaneous gang rape was going to take place just then on the stage of the Laugh…

— Lindy West

“Maybe periods wouldn’t be so frightening if we didn’t refer to them as “red tide” or “shark week” or any other euphemism…

— Lindy West

“People target advertisers because they’re tired of their hard-won consumer dollars going to pay sexists and racists and homophobes who got those…

— Lindy West

“You can't fix a problem by targeting its victims. Even if you hate fat people with all your heart, if you actually…

— Lindy West

“When I look at photographs of my twenty-two-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and…

— Lindy West

There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is…

— Lindy West

The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and…

— Lindy West

“Reality TV, as we all know by now, is scripted. This is the most frightening vestige of President Trump's TV career: in…

— Lindy West

Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism.…

— Lindy West

“So, what do you do when you’re too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but…

— Lindy West

In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl…

— Lindy West