(Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)
TINA FEYPolitics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’
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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you’re halfway there. It’s inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it’s not that instant kind of funny.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.
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