India

There’s a certain entitlement in the “writer’s block” concept. God help me, some immovable object has come to stand in between me and my unstoppable force of creative genius. If only this hulking disgrace could move out of the way, then I could easily access my greatest ideas, which flow to me like a constant river of divine inspiration. I’m sorry,... See more

Maybe our taste develops first so that we don’t settle too soon. Maybe the gap between who you are and who you want to be is supposed to be frustrating. You can’t imitate your way out of it, and there’s no way to rush through it. You just have to stay there for a while, stuck between admiration and ability.

I don’t know if you know (I didn’t so that’s why I’m telling you) that part of what defines a patriarchy is that everything is designed and organized around men.

The reason I feel like it took so long to land on something was because I didn’t want to force anything. If you’re forcing it, you’re just going to be miserable, you’re not going to enjoy what you’re doing. So, it took a long time until I got to something where I was comfortable, where I could work like this all day and I wouldn’t get bored of it.

a woman has no need to touch the seat and a man has the option to not touch the seat and pee sitting down (which is more hygienic anyway.) So a woman shouldn’t have to touch the seat when there’s nothing about her body that would require that and if a man chooses to stand and pee, then it’s really his choice to touch the seat.