"I bought a telephone, not a lifestyle."

--the girlfriend's dad

"Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally."

--Raphael Reig, Blood on the Saddle

"If you were born with a vagina, your primary obligation from the onset of adolescence and well into adulthood will be to make yourself pretty for heterosexual men's pleasure. Not even just the ones you'd actually want to have a conversation with, let alone sex with--all of them."

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

"Food is for the weak!"

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

"Too many women substitute diet talk for real conversation. They use it to bond, but it is a superficial bond that undermines the chance of any real connection. It pretends to align women as sisters working toward a common goal, but it really turns them into competitors."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere