Jessa Crispin 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Jessa Crispin

  Clients

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Jessa Crispin

  People, Email, Nails

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• I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

  Jessa Crispin

  Divorce

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• I believe in free will.

  Jessa Crispin

  Believe, I Believe, Free Will

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• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

  Jessa Crispin

  Literature, Nonfiction, American Literature

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• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

  Jessa Crispin

  Men, Planets, Deals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

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• 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

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• I never asked anybody to take me seriously.

  Jessa Crispin

  Take Me

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• I have a really good life and I really like it.

  Jessa Crispin

  Good Life, Really Good Life

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jessa Crispin

  Thinking, Literature, Horrible

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