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

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

- Cris Mazza

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

- 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

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

- Cris Mazza

I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender a…

- 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

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

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