Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn’t the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence’s soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and ‘chubby’ women is because she is representative of conventional beauty. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
When Jennifer Lawrence says it’s ‘dumb’ to go hungry to make other people happy, she’s saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn’t allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
The attitude of, ‘I will never self-publish,’ coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can’t really fault someone for saying, ‘What I’m doing right now works, so there’s no reason to change it.’ Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
It’s far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. Jennifer Armintrout Read Quote
