In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer f…

- Cris Mazza

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

- Cris Mazza

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

- Cris Mazza

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's…

- Cris Mazza

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we'…

- Cris Mazza

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusi…

- Cris Mazza

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

- Cris Mazza

If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, …

- Cris Mazza

Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspiration…

- Cris Mazza