“Over on the waterbed, a human cupcake scrolls Twitter, copying down opinions for me to recycle as my own at a dinner party, thereby rescuing me from the excruciating tedium of original thought.” – pg. 10
“I don’t want my worst nightmare to be wrinkles and irrelevance.” – pg. 15
“It’s hard to touch magic and then go home.” – pg. 24
“The second I got tits I also got eyes that rolled and arms that crossed.” – pg. 57
“Women’s darkness is so much more than inevitable and interesting than a broken heart […]. Figuring out how to use it as a superpower is the tricky part” – pg. 69
“There is no limit on how many times the heart can break.” – pg. 97
“Why does it take us so long to ask the question, Wait, is this hurting me?“ – pg. 104
“It’s hard to learn to dream when you’ve spent all your energy trying to be one for someone else.” – pg. 105
“Apparently success required the thing I didn’t have: liking yourself. Liking yourself enough to disable self-criticism.” – pg. 111
“Make your demons trade knives for paintbrushes.” – pg. 113
“I was going to pretend to be a person who believed in themselves until it wasn’t a lie anymore.” – pg. 120
“In a way failure was salvation. It froze time so I could keep learning.” – pg. 121
“The tote bags and hashtags that seem to be the skywriting of modern feminism would have you believe we solved it.” – pg. 142
“My brain is a room full of women who take turns at the wheel. It’s the only way I can make sense of what it feels like to be alive.” – pg. 152
“A lot of the magic around someone having a ‘moment’ is paid for, and white-knuckled, and a full, booming, churning business unto itself.” – pg. 190
“I never worried more about money than when I started having a little.” – pg. 206
“In all my running from myself, it is hard to remember that I also love the thing I’m running from. That I’m in all this for the big feelings. I don’t want them to be muted. […] The Barbie stuff is smaller but easier, more numb. Safer. Those lows aren’t as deep and harrowing.” – pg. 230
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