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Jia Tolentino Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.”
— Jia Tolentino, The Age of Instagram Face
Tagged: Instagram, Influencer
“Marcella had accepted her brush with Internet fame as an odd thrill, and not an entirely foreign one.”
— Jia Tolentino, How TikTok Holds Our Attention
Tagged: TikTok
“The cyborg is powerful because she grasps the potential in her own artificiality, because she accepts without question how deeply it is embedded in her.”
— Jia Tolentino, Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman
Tagged: Cyborgs, Artificial Design
“By imagining that they are threatened, men like Kavanaugh have found the motivation to demonstrate, at great cost to the rest of us, that they are still the ones that have the ability to threaten others.”
— Jia Tolentino, One Year of #MeToo: What Women’s Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do
Tagged: #metoo, Kavanaugh, Women's Rights, Women's Speech, feminism
“Grifter season comes irregularly, but it comes often in America, which is built around mythologies of profit and reinvention and spectacular ascent.”
— Jia Tolentino, The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season
Tagged: grifters, Anna Delvey, Fraud, News
“I never got tired of coming across a writerly style that seemed to exist for no good reason. I loved watching people try to figure out if they had something to say.”
— Jia Tolentino, The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
Tagged: Personal Essays, Finding Your Voice, Quote of the Moment, Hot Takes, Personal Essays, The internet, Writing
“An ad-based publishing model built around maximizing page views quickly and cheaply creates uncomfortable incentives for writers, editors, and readers alike.”
— Jia Tolentino, The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
Tagged: Ads, Digital Ads, Digital Advertising, Online Publishing, Hot Takes, Personal Essays, The internet, Writing
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