The Favorite Sister

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** “Engrossing…Deliciously savage and wildly entertaining.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week) From Jessica Knoll—author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York T

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Women sexually attracted to socks are not impervious to the male gaze. The difference today is, we have to say that we are. Feminism doesn't emancipate us, it makes us bad liars.

— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com

feminism The Male Gaze

The truth won't make people listen unless it is sufficiently awful.

— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com

News Media Stories Activism

She has a fresh whitehead on her chin and an old angry one on her cheek and not a stitch of makeup to soften the blow. And for this, she gets to hear she is beautiful. Get me a cane to shake grouchily into the air, because in my day, not even actually being beautiful was enough.

— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com

Women feminism Makeup beauty

Men who call women crazy are always the men who have first pushed them to the brink.

— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com

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