Occupation: Columnist Birth: April 5, 1975
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution..
What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn….
I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up la….
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat..
All art is someone trying to tell you something..
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals o….
I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys..
I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none..
We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad..
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means..
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater grat….
There's something so free about being a fan and being enthusiastic about stuff - you attract all the other people who are also loving and enthusiasti….
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, eve….
To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like say….
A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of ….
Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt..
I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit..
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone..
If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words..
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In….
Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d….