Lindy West
Born
in Seattle, WA, The United States
March 09, 1982
Website
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Genre
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
33 editions
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2016
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The Witches Are Coming
17 editions
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2019
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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
10 editions
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2020
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Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
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43 editions
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1915
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How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
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5 editions
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2012
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Shout Your Abortion
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6 editions
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2018
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Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
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5 editions
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2020
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“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“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. Don’t tell women with facial hair to wax, don’t tell uncircumcised men they’re gross, don’t tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don’t tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vagina, don’t tell black women to relax their hair, don’t tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don’t tell “apple-shaped” women what’s “flattering,” don’t tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don’t tell people whose toes you don’t approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they “should” and “shouldn't” do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU.”
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