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The Cut Quotes

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“Your weaknesses are more beautiful than you think. Let them surprise you.”
— Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, ‘Am I Too Weird and Contradictory to Find Love?’
Tagged: Weakness, Love, contradictory, Weird
“Being a New Yorker, probably more than being a resident of any other place on Earth, is a choice.”
— Daniel Featherstone Essays by Rumaan Alam, Emily Gould, Brit Bennett, Regina Porter, Lynn Steger Strong, and Jenny Zhang, The Cut, The 8 Million Reasons to Love New York
Tagged: New York, New Yorker, resident
“Most recently, she became the first female LGBTQ writer to win the 2020 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Comedy.”
— Kerensa Cadenas, The Cut, How I Get It Done: Dead to Me Creator Liz Feldman
Tagged: writer, Netflix, Dead To Me
“This week we sat down with Jenny Slate to talk about how she gets it done. And at the moment, Jenny’s got a lot to do: She just published a new book called Little Weirds, and her new comedy special is out now on Netflix.”
— The Cut, Jenny Slate on Getting Stage Fright for the First Time in Her 20s
Tagged: Jenny Slate, Netflix, Stage Fright
“To feminists, her pseudonym became synonymous with the battle for liberation and bodily autonomy. To the Christian right, it made her the new face of evil”
— Callie Beusman, The Cut, No One Really Knew Jane Roe
Tagged: Jane Roe , Roe V. Wade, Abortion, Reproductive Care
“It’s key for your boss to understand that you don’t object to taking on new responsibilities in general, but changed jobs specifically to avoid this one.”
— Allison Green, The Cut, ‘My Boss Wants to Change My Job, and I’m Not Happy About It!’
Tagged: boss, Object, Jobs, Advice
“The strange feats of strength that can be accomplished after a devastating breakup.”
— The Editors, The Cut, Introducing 78 New Emotions
Tagged: emotions, breakup, Feat
“That doesn’t surprise me. They’ll do anything to do to get themselves out of the misery of the world that they’ve created for us.”
— The Cut, A Party Drug for the End of the World
“The man who unleashed Instagram on the world stands six-foot-five-inches tall and has the careful demeanor of someone who knows people are listening closely to what he’s saying.”
— Stella Bugbee, The Cut, Instagram’s Co-Founder on Creating the World’s Filter
Tagged: Instagram, Interview, Social Media
“'I paint for myself, basically. If people like it, bravo; if they don’t, I don’t care. I don’t really care at all. Sometimes it’s better because then I get to keep it.'”
— Wendy Goodman , Françoise Gilot, The Cut, At Home With Françoise Gilot
Tagged: paint, Françoise Gilot, Pablo Picasso
“What unites us, then, is the feeling of Cats, which is like a fever dream of feline breasts and tufted celebrity faces that grows even stranger upon waking.”
— Hannah Gold, The Cut, Cats Has Plunged Us All Into a Horrifying Fever Dream
Tagged: cats, Feeling, strange, Weird
“Now, multiple sources tell E! News that the Queen in the North is expecting an heir, and the Jonas Brother will become a Jonas father.”
— Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, Baby Is Coming
Tagged: Baby, Joe Jonas , Sophie Turner , Preganancy
“25-year-old Teddy Quinlivan has the honor of breaking history with Chanel.”
— Kathleen Hou, The Cut, Chanel Beauty Hires Its First Transgender Model
Tagged: Transgender, LGBTQIA, model, Chanel, beauty
“Back when Anna knew her, Faith Goldy was an outspoken feminist who was voted school prefect at their private all-girls school. Now, she’s a media personality on the far-right internet.”
— The Cut, How Did My Former Schoolmate Become a White-Nationalist Poster Girl?
Tagged: Politics, Podcast
“The cursed thing will still make you feel uncomfortable, but not necessarily nauseous; disturbed, but in a way that’s more uncanny than upsetting.”
— Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, The Cut, The Most Cursed Moments Of 2019
Tagged: Cursed, Weird, awkward
“There are suddenly no possible excuses to put off corrections I should make, with time spread out before me like an unending blanket.”
— Wendy Goodman , The Cut, Appreciating My Apartment During Self-Quarantine
Tagged: excuses, Appreciation, Work From Home
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized for a possible infection, after coming down with a fever and chills on Monday night.”
— Claire Lampen, The Cut, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized With Possible Infection
Tagged: ruth bader ginsburg, hospital, infection
“Spanning over 500 years of history, the book features the work and biographies of over 400 women artists.”
— Erica Schwiegershausen, The Cut, This New Book Is the Most Extensive Anthology of Women Artists Ever Published
Tagged: History, Art, Artists, book
“He took me to a restaurant where his friend was a bartender because he thought his friend could sneak us free food and drinks. Tacky.”
— The Cut, He Thought the Wedding Planner Was His Soul Mate
Tagged: break ups, Breaking Up, He Said She Said
“Over the past 20 years, she’s reported from the front lines of progressive movements from Occupy Wall Street and beyond, and is known for her unflinching critique of capitalism and globalization.”
— Bridget Read, The Cut, How I Get It Done: Writer and Activist Naomi Klein
Tagged: Progress, writer, Activist, Critique
“I mean, the 'Boyfriend Cliff' is arresting, but please keep in mind: Someone placed each and every one of its minuscule, unhinged details deliberately.”
— Claire Lampen, The Cut, What on Earth Is the ‘Boyfriend Cliff’?
Tagged: Boyfriend Cliff, Andrew Cuomo
“Given that changes are the only constant, I have been searching for ways to stretch my capacity for dealing with them.”
— Stella Bugbee, The Cut, Running the Blind Marathon of Adulthood
Tagged: Change, Adulthood, Coping with Change
“The images are something, as they say down South, perhaps even more so because George Floyd is so present and absent from them. Where is he?”
— Chaédria LaBouvier , The Cut, The Afterlife of George Floyd: A Portfolio by Photographer Eli Reed
Tagged: George Floyd, photo, Eli Reed, Art
“The air seemed palpably tarter, lactobacilli luxuriating in paradise. It was sourdough, sourdough, sourdough.”
— Matthew Schneier, The Cut, When We Were Bread Heads
Tagged: Quarantine, Bread, Reflection
“Wake up and check my phone immediately to see if M sent me an early morning text. Nothing. I hate the weekends. His wife checks his work phone and personal phone like a lunatic (we’ve always communicated on his work phone). I find it bizarre — if you’re that insecure, why are you married?”
— The Cut, The Married Woman Who’s Been Cheating for 6 Years
Tagged: Sex, Infidelity
“Many Australians are furious with their government’s resistance to acknowledge the role of climate change in the brushfires, which experts say are now burning hotter, longer, and more ferociously due to rising global temperatures.”
— Bridget Read, The Cut, Yes, It’s Getting Worse
Tagged: Australia, Fire, Climate Change
“I call my last relationship “the vacation hookup that lasted three years.” Ever since I met my ex at a nightclub in Ibiza and he told me I had “eyes like a husky’s,” I had a feeling it wasn’t meant to be forever — but it would be fun while it lasted.”
— Suzannah Weiss, The Cut, I Traveled 4,000 Miles to Break Up With My Boyfriend in Person
Tagged: Boyfriend, breakup, travel
“Will this year’s red carpet be as memorable as last year’s, which brought us Timothée Chalamet in a hot priest look from Louis Vuitton and Lady Gaga bringing the drama in a custom periwinkle Valentino gown (which she later left in the hotel)?”
— Andrew Nguyen, The Cut, Every. Single. Look. at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards
Tagged: Golden Globes, Fashion, Awards
“All that pink. All those plants. All that white.”
— Molly Fischer, The Cut, Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?
Tagged: Millennial, Aesthetic, Pink, plants
“Across the world, women are subjected to these tests to determine everything from whether they can go to school or get married. Historically, they’ve been used to justify the torture — or in some cases, murder — of women who are deemed impure.”
— Amanda Arnold, The Cut, ‘Virginity Testing’ Is a Dangerous Sham
Tagged: virgin, Virginity, Women, Sex
“I always assumed that I would spend the perimenopausal years of my life living alone in an unfurnished studio apartment, shouting incorrect Jeopardy! answers at my ancient television set and keeping company with none but a feral cat.”
— Samantha Irby, The Cut, I Planned On Dying Alone. Then I realized how comfortable love could be.
Tagged: Life, Alone, Comfort, sweet
“Did I mention I’m really good at self-sabotage?”
— The Cut, The Lawyer Flying to London to See a Tinder Date
Tagged: Sex, dates, Love, Love And Sex, Tinder
“They held each other up, tended to wounds from rubber bullets, poured milk in each other’s tear-gassed eyes, and lifted each other onto buildings and barricades, wearing masks for protection against the virus, but also to shield themselves from police surveillance.”
— Bridger Read, The Cut, What’s More Deadly
Tagged: Protests, coronavirus, Police Brutality
“Using an eye cream won’t banish dark circles, but a select few creams really work, mostly by using high-tech ingredients to constrict blood vessels (which cause dark shadows), diffuse light, and brighten pigmented areas for a noticeable improvement in their appearance.”
— The Cut, 16 Under-Eye Creams That Actually Work
Tagged: skincare, Under-Eye Creams
“Buying a gift for the food lover in your life can be challenging.”
— The Cut, The 29 Best Gifts for the Foodie in Your Life
Tagged: Food Lover, gifts, Holidays, Foodie
“I don’t believe in more money more problems. I have no shame in saying that money rules. Money is freedom; money is happiness. My parents counted their pennies. I watched them, and I always said I would be the person at the hotel who would open the $4 bottle of water without flinching, just because I could. I am that person now.”
— The Cut, What It’s Like to Make a Million Dollars a Year
Tagged: Wealth, Money, Success
“Again, Warren said, 'Pregnancy discrimination is real,' and noted that the exchange they were having on air was itself part of the larger pattern that has permitted this kind of unfair treatment to continue, even after it became officially illegal in 1978, noting how often she has heard, 'We can’t really believe the women. Really? Why not?'”
— Rebecca Traister, The Cut, ‘You Believe He’s Lying?’
Tagged: Belief, Believe Women, Elizabeth Warren
“As news of the hacking arrest spread on Twitter, Hill posted, 'Sometimes you think you’ve hit your lowest low & are on the upswing, starting to feel ok, then something else happens & you slide right back into the mud. You just want to sink all the way in instead of trying to fight your way back up. But you will rise again. #depression.'”
— Caitlin Moscatello, The Cut, Katie Hill, After the Scandal
Tagged: Katie Hill, scandal, Hacked , Hill
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