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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time

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“Somehow, society convinces us that we are nothing without a man, and simultaneously feeds us subliminal messages that make us feel that no man in his right mind would really want us.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Societal Norms, Break The Norm, Men

“I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated, the ones who are so intriguing that new men fall in love with them every day, at every meal where there’s a waiter, in every taxi and on every tr…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Complicated, Bad Girls

“We decide to learn to be the way men want us to be, rather than insisting they change to suit us.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Gender Relations

“It’s about how nice it must be to just decide I will not be nice, I am never sorry, I have no regrets: what is before me belongs to me.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Regrets, No Regrets

“Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Bad Girls

“If a woman is good enough to be good, she is also good enough to be bad.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Bitch