We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer…

- Gina Barreca

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never…

- Gina Barreca

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagini…

- Gina Barreca

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.

- Gina Barreca

Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are …

- Gina Barreca

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all …

- Gina Barreca

I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of…

- Gina Barreca

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

- Gina Barreca

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

- Gina Barreca