Jessa Crispin famous quotes

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Men #Feminism #Feels

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Lonely #Loneliness #Writing

A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Appreciation #Intelligent #Men

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Country #Ifs

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Leaving #Culture #Made

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."
-- Jessa Crispin

#Stupid #Sea #People

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Art #New York #Museums

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Thinking #Want #I Can

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Literature #Nonfiction #American Literature

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Thinking #Literature #Horrible

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
-- Jessa Crispin

#People #Want #Way

I have a really good life and I really like it.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Good Life #Really Good Life

I never asked anybody to take me seriously.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Take Me

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Mean #Men #Sometimes

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Father #Twenties #Firsts

I believe in free will.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Believe #I Believe #Free Will

I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Clients

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Self #People #Cynical

I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Father #Thinking #Should

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
-- Jessa Crispin

#People #Creative #Trying

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Mean #Creative #Problem

I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Divorce

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.
-- Jessa Crispin

#People #Email #Nails

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Country #Email #Planets

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Talking #People #Resistance

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Writing #Thinking #Idiot

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Writing #Thinking #Research

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Running #Book #Years

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Men #Planets #Deals

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Motivation #Writing #Ifs