For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That’s what makes me happy.
Women saying “I’m not a feminist” is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you’re a feminist.
I’m not jealous in traditional ways – of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts – but I do covet other women’s styles of being.
It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, ‘Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we’re living in a post-that world,’ when that just isn’t true.
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.
It doesn’t occur to so many people that if you don’t have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life – like using a bathroom or getting your clothes – that just aren’t going to be as easy.
Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.
Enjoy going through life as yourself.
On a personal level, I’m proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It’s a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she’s been very strong about it.
Hell hath no fury like a woman who has accidentally napped.
It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there’s a large swath of them, for sure.
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
I’m always having to be told to brush my hair.
I’m really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that’s really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.
I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you’re dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.