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Lindy West Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“I'm Mother Teresa, but less of a bitch.”
— Gabe, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 7
Tagged: Metaphor Examples, Sassy, Mother Teresa
“I would say, don't overthink it.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 7
Tagged: Advice, Overthink, relax
“And women, we're like screaming in huge pink letters that we're powerful just to try to convince ourselves. ”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 6
Tagged: gender, Women, Sexism, Power
“I'm fat. It's just true, you know?”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 6
Tagged: Body Image, Confidence, Outspoken
“I do what I do because it's what I want.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 5
Tagged: Choices, Decision Making, Happy
“I don't need to figure things out. I like what I'm doing with my life.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 5
Tagged: Life, confident, Figuring Things Out
“You look like a park ranger in a porno.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 4
Tagged: Simile Examples, Park Ranger, outfit, Porn
“I was thinking about getting a lava lamp for us, but I didn't want you to be scared that it was real lava.”
— Maureen, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 4
Tagged: Lava Lamp , Scared, real, Concern
“I'm shaking my shit up a little bit. You know, taking a chance on myself.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Shaking it up , Taking A Chance, empowerment
“I'm tryna be the person that I actually wanna be.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Person, Live Up, Ownership
“I'm not off the rails. I am the rails.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Rails, Confidence, metaphor example
“From now on, no more dramatic exists.”
— Gabe, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Drama, Dramtic, Exits
“I'm a fucking bitch and I love it!”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: proud, Love, Happy
“Everything becomes commodified as it becomes popular.”
— Lindy West, Lindy West Gets Real About Trump, Twitter & Shrill Season 2
Tagged: Body Positivity, Pop Culture, Wellness
“Annie: This is the best conversation we've ever had. 

Ruthie: Could I borrow $5? 

Annie: Oh. Sure.

Ruthie: I mean $20.”
— Ruthie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Sweet moment , Money, Borrowing Money
“I'm not wearing a bra and I'm a real fucking writer!”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: bra, writer, Excitment, Happy, Surprised
“No raw dogging. No hand dogging, no blow dogging.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Sex, Raw dogging
“'Cause I'm the one with the fat ass and big titties. So I get to decide what we do.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Confidence, Body Positive, dominant, Strong
“I'm the one who's wearing heels right now, you know? I feel like a fuckin' idiot. ”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Heels, Idiot, upset, Uncomfortable
“Ryan: Your eyes match your dress.

Annie: Well, the meatballs match your eyes.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Eyes, dress, Date, Dating, Meatballs
“Either 69 or get out of my face.”
— Ruthie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Sassy, Rude, Get out of my face
“I love the whole female empowerment shit, I kind of invented it in the '90s, I was the original bass player in Bikini Kill.”
— Gabe, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Female Empowerment, Bass Player , Movement, '90s
“You're so wise. And pretty. And wise.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: wise, Pretty, Compliment
“I don't apologize to white people.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Apology
“The line between seduction and coercion has shifted, and shifted quickly, over the past few years (the past few months, even). When I was in my 20s, a decade ago, sex was something of a melee. 'No means no' was the only rule, and it was still solidly acceptable in mainstream social circles to bother somebody until they agreed to have sex with you. (At the movies, this was called romantic comedy.)

What’s not true is the suggestion that complex conversations about consent are new territory, or that men weren’t given ample opportunity to catch up.”
— Lindy West, Opinion | Aziz, We Tried to Warn You
Tagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Coercion, Cultural Awareness of Rape Culture, Changing Social Norms, The Complexity of Consent
“There is a reflexive tendency, when grappling with stories of sexual misconduct like the accusations leveled at Ansari this past weekend — incidents that seem to exist in that vast gray area between assault and a skewed power dynamic — to point out that sexual norms have changed.”
— Lindy West, Opinion | Aziz, We Tried to Warn You
Tagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Coercion, Cultural Awareness of Rape Culture, Changing Social Norms
“In 1975, 42 years before the comedian Aziz Ansari reportedly brought a date home to his apartment and repeatedly tried to initiate sex with her after she told him 'next time' and 'I don’t want to feel forced,' Susan Brownmiller published 'Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.'”
— Lindy West, Opinion | Aziz, We Tried to Warn You
Tagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Coercion, Cultural Awareness of Rape Culture
“The notion of affirmative consent did not fall from space in October 2017 to confound well-meaning but bumbling men; it was built, loudly and painstakingly and in public, at great personal cost to its proponents, over decades.”
— Lindy West, Opinion | Aziz, We Tried to Warn You
Tagged: #metoo, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
“Feminism is the collective manifestation of anger. They suppress our anger for a reason. Let’s prove them right.”
— Lindy West, Brave Enough To Be Angry
Tagged: Patriarchy, feminism, Anger
“I did not call myself a feminist until I was nearly 20 years old. My world had taught me that feminists were ugly and ridiculous, and I did not want to be ugly and ridiculous. I wanted to be cool and desired by men, because even as a teenager I knew implicitly that pandering for male approval was a woman’s most effective currency. It was my best shot at success, or at least safety, and I wasn’t sophisticated enough to see that success and safety, bestowed conditionally, aren’t success and safety at all. They are domestication and implied violence.”
— Lindy West, Brave Enough To Be Angry
Tagged: Patriarchy, feminism, Internalized Misogyny
“Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed to be angry about it.”
— Lindy West, Brave Enough To Be Angry
Tagged: Anger, Sexism, Double Standards, Silence, Victim Blaming, Patriarchy
“It's this idea of protecting the same status quo that's always protected Harvey Weinstein and has protected Donald Trump, and has allowed white men to maintain this death grip on power and influence and keep the rest of us subordinated.”
— Lindy West, Fresh Air: Columnist Lindy West Sees 'Straight Line' From Trolls Who Targeted Her To Trump
Tagged: harvey weinstein controversy, President Trump, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault
“And the rhetoric that they were throwing at me was all about political correctness and free speech and silencing — men being silenced — and women being too sensitive, and people of color being too sensitive and social justice warriors. [It's] all of the same identical things that then, four or five years later, I hear Donald Trump say in a debate.”
— Lindy West, Fresh Air: Columnist Lindy West Sees 'Straight Line' From Trolls Who Targeted Her To Trump
Tagged: Trump Administration, Sexual Harassment, Female Empowerment, White Patriarchy
“The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.”
— Lindy West, The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life
Tagged: Body Image, Consumerism, Beauty Industry, Dieting, thin, Fat shaming, Inspirational, Ageing, Growing Pains
“When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time – that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
— Lindy West, The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life
Tagged: Body Image, Misogyny, Internalized Misogyny, Consumerism, Beauty Industry, Dieting, thin, Important, Fat shaming, Patriarchy
“I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.”
— Lindy West, Survivors of sexual violence don't owe anyone our stories. Here's why I'm telling mine. #MeToo
Tagged: Past, Rape, Sexual Assault, sexual violence, Harvey Weinstein, Alyssa Milano, Facebook, Twitter, Lindy West, Survivors, Privilege
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