Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the…

- Lindy West

On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a co…

- Lindy West

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

- Lindy West

Ashley Graham on the cover certainly better than nothing. It would have felt revolutionary to me as a teenage girl, for sure. But really, all they've…

- Lindy West

I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In f…

- Lindy West

I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grow…

- Lindy West

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

- Lindy West

I'm fortunate to have a hilarious, fun, brilliant family that I love spending time with that keeps me in a healthy head space. The internet can be so…

- Lindy West

The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There i…

- Lindy West