"If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class."
- Gina Barreca
"In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn’t ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine."
"It’s only when you’re at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend."
"How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds."
"...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of ..."
"Ask a woman if she’s ambitious and she’ll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she’s competitive and she’ll look at you as if you suggested that ..."
"Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience."
"To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine."
"Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun."Not only..."
"Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel."