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

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

- 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

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

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

- Cris Mazza

That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can hav…

- Cris Mazza

What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desir…

- 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