I am, indeed, a feminist. But...
First things first, I just want to clarify that I am indeed, a feminist. I am a staunch advocate of women’s’ rights, and I believe in...
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26 years old and normal.
At twenty six, it’s now officially unlikely I will ever make it as a stripper. Quite a depressing thought, really. Am I that banal? When...
My rude awakening.
I thought for a while in my mid-twenties that I wanted to be normal. This was surprising, not least to myself, because I had spent the...
Not my king.
Dear The Guardian, The BBC has been criticised for serving “a shrinking minority of people” in their coverage of the upcoming Coronation....
A Bitter Pill to Swallow.
Something I've been trying recently is to get a letter published in The Guardian online. I haven't been very successful so far. But as...
Pull the other one.
We have a happy knack for always finding someone to point to as richer than ourselves. I don’t know what spurs us on to do it....
What they keep on their nightstand.
You can tell a lot about somebody by what they keep on their nightstand. I would advise anybody who hasn’t tried it to pay more attention...
Screaming into the void.
I wouldn’t say that my life has been full of “not-quites”. My life has - and I must say that at the grand old age of twenty-five my life...
birth of the 'cool'.
I have been many things in my life, and have had numerous insecurities and hang-ups, enough to fill a particularly lengthy pamphlet in...
The soft furnishings of myself.
I do think about life and death and purpose and art and suffering and god, but when I think about it, my mind retreats into the minutiae...
Murmurations.
I learnt a new word today. Well, discovered. ‘Learnt’ makes me sound like a 4-year-old. Murmuration. Without knowing what it means, you...
A rule of thumb.
As a rule of thumb, I tend to stay away from creative men. Painters, musicians, directors, writers; even those guys in shopping centres...
Becoming part of the pattern in the lino.
As a young woman - or at least younger than I am now, for I still cling onto the mantle of youth – I felt certain that I should live my...
What would you do if you knew you could not fail.
Okay, so I know this is a just butchered quotation from Robert Frost, but the Disney+ series The Dropout brought it to my attention once...
And about suffering they were never wrong.
Who can say that happiness isn’t real? Everywhere you look, you will find happiness. It’s in the way another walks, it’s in the windows...
You're better for your failures.
You’re better for your failures. As a writer, I cling on to that. I lie in bed night after night, those words ringing in my ears. You’re...
Certain experiences seem to not want to go in to language.
Sometimes, when I am walking down the street or watching television or looking out of my window, a feeling comes upon me. And no, it’s...
Wisdom writes more novels than knowledge.
Does novel-reading bring us knowledge? Novels are fictional, although they can relate factual circumstances to us through the lens of...
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