Jenny Lawson Quotes - Page 3

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• Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

  Jenny Lawson

  Healthy, Loud, Dissension

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• When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

  Jenny Lawson

  Crazy, Cutting, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

  Jenny Lawson

  Facts, Realizing, Internet

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• Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Self, Practice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

  Jenny Lawson

  Girl, People, Guy

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• YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe.

  Jenny Lawson

  Safe, Calm, Dishwashers

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• I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mother, Husband, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

  Jenny Lawson

  Humble, Interesting, Hysterical

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• Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.

  Jenny Lawson

  Sleep, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

  Jenny Lawson

  Anxiety Disorder, Creating, People

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Knock-knock, motherfucker.

  Jenny Lawson

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

  Jenny Lawson

  Memories, Hate, Block

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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