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Lindy West Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“'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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 don't apologize to white people.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Apology
“You're so wise. And pretty. And wise.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: wise, Pretty, Compliment
“No raw dogging. No hand dogging, no blow dogging.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Sex, Raw dogging
“I'm a fucking bitch and I love it!”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: proud, Love, Happy
“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
“Either 69 or get out of my face.”
— Ruthie, Shrill, Season 1: Date
Tagged: Sassy, Rude, Get out of my face
“I'm not off the rails. I am the rails.”
— Annie, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Rails, Confidence, metaphor example
“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
“You look like a park ranger in a porno.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 4
Tagged: Simile Examples, Park Ranger, outfit, Porn
“I do what I do because it's what I want.”
— Fran, Shrill, Season 2: Episode 5
Tagged: Choices, Decision Making, Happy
“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
“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
“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
“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
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