Latest Lindy West Quotes from Interviews

• Tengo la suerte de tener una familia divertidísima y brillante con la que me encanta pasar el tiempo y que me mantiene en un espacio mental saludable. Internet puede ser tan cautivador en el mal sentido, en el sentido tóxico, en el que sientes que tu cerebro está sumergido en esta cloaca y no puedes salir de ella. Lo principal es pasar tiempo con personas físicas reales que te recuerden quién eres. Puede ser tan tentador creer que eres quien Internet dice que eres.

  Lindy West

  Fun, Real, Believe

• Soy una persona profundamente privilegiada. Tengo una vida segura y cómoda, y hay muy pocas cosas que corran peligro para mí. Mi familia no me va a repudiar por hablar de abortar, y no me arriesgo a quedarme sin trabajo o sin casa por decir algo controvertido que pueda no gustar a mi jefe. Tengo el don de la estabilidad y me siento obligada a utilizarlo para mejorar el mundo en lo que pueda. Es increíblemente gratificante. Incluso ayudar a una persona a sentirse un poco mejor es muy importante para mí y me hace sentir que mi vida significa algo.

  Lindy West

  Mean, Abortion, Risk

• There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is like fixing sexism. How do you do that? I'm of the opinion that discourse helps, that changing people's minds changes people's actions. On a more practical level, I do enjoy sassing back at trolls, because I always win, because my job makes me better at arguing. If I can frustrate or embarrass a troll, then that lodges in that person's brain that trolling me is not a consequence-free hobby.

  Lindy West

  Winning, Decision, Brain

• 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 comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.

  Lindy West

  Wall, Couple, Comedy

• I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say that it's absolutely unacceptable and ludicrous to suggest that women aren't funny anymore in 2016. It just makes you look like a dinosaur.

  Lindy West

  Comedia

• I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on figuring out what my book would be. I was always so embarrassed that it took me so long to figure it out, but I think, in retrospect, I just wasn't ready to write a book six years ago. I wasn't confident enough as a writer and I wasn't coherent enough in my worldview. It just took this long for me to be a mature enough writer and be ready to do it.

  Lindy West

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

  Lindy West

  Real, World, Ridiculous

• Abortion. Feminism. Online harassment. Social justice. Women's "no"s are constantly doubted and eroded in our culture. Saying "no" and sticking to it  -  and, especially, doing that where other women can see it  -  is a political statement.

  Lindy West

  Justice, Abortion, Political

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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 grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value.

  Lindy West

  Hate, Mind, Failing

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I would want people to know that they don't have to hate their body and don't have to be afraid of it, but that it's also okay to feel uncomfortable with it at times. The body positivity conversation often gets sort of oversimplified and flattened into, "Yay! Everyone has to love everything about their body all the time!" And that's not realistic, that's not how bodies work, that's not how emotions work. It's fine to have these kinds of confusing and conflicting feelings.

  Lindy West

  Hate, Positivity, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• One of the most irritating things about America is this bravado we have  -  like, "You guys, we're amazing! We're the most amazing country in the world!" And I'm like, "Are you sure? Because we're garbage and backward in a million areas that other developed countries left behind years ago!"

  Lindy West

  Country, Guy, World

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to develop coping mechanisms on the fly, and slowly it got better, to the point where now I barely notice. I'm like an old, gnarly turtle now. The interaction with the troll who impersonated my dad made me start to understand who these people are, and I figured out, in a really profound way, that happy people don't do this. It's hard to feel afraid of someone when you pity them.

  Lindy West

  Hurt, Fun, Dad

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• There are women who live in U.S. with maybe one abortion clinic. The right wing is trying to make it impossible for women to get abortions, even if they are technically legal. This is done in a literal way  -  you can't get to a clinic, you can't afford it, you have to tell your parents  -   and by making it something that young people feel they can't talk about, can't ask for help with, can't do anything about but try to either induce abortions on their own, alone and unsafely, or have children they don't want and can't care for. It's just an assault on all sides.

  Lindy West

  Children, People, Abortion

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Lindy West

  Determination, Feminism, Emotion

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

  Lindy West

  Believe, Positivity, Gender

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are things we use when we want to dance around something or don't want to say it. I don't want to be something that is avoided. And I am my body.

  Lindy West

  Important, Speak, Speak The Truth

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• When I started tentatively dipping a toe into fat-positive internet spaces, I learned that reclaiming the term was the quickest and most powerful way to make it stop hurting. If you can say, "Yes, I am fat, and it's okay to be fat," then all of a sudden it doesn't hurt when someone says it to you. And it's also just a descriptor. It's like tall.

  Lindy West

  Hurt, Powerful, Internet

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

  Lindy West

  Thinking, Focus, Empathy

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

  Lindy West

  Childhood, Realizing, Moments

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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 done is include a very conventionally attractive woman who is two to three sizes bigger than the model they would usually use.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Teenage, Done

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class   -   in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, College

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality, but there's such intense pressure to be cool and not alienate boys, to not be a pain in the ass  -  to not be "that kind of woman."

  Lindy West

  Pain, Teenager, Boys

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

  Lindy West

  Waiting, Progress, Work In Progress

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

• 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 isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, Waiting

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

• My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.

  Lindy West

  Bricks And Mortar, Shopping, People

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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