Lindy West Quotes

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

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

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

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.

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.

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.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.

I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.

We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.