History Author, TV Writer. Latest: Madame Restell: Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist. Married to
@Kibblesmith
. Mom to toddler.
‘MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist’ is on sale now here and wherever books are sold:
When attacked in the press, the infamous Fifth Avenue abortionist Madame Restell published her own retorts — today, Jennifer Wright suggests in her new biography, she “would be fighting on Twitter constantly.” It was, after all, free advertising.
BREAKING: Girls under age 18 will have to get a parent's permission before having an abortion under a bill passed by the Florida Legislature on Thursday; Gov. DeSantis is expected to approve the bill.
"Women in the past were modest and had more respect for themselves."
Here's Agnes Sorel, who had her gowns tailored to expose her favorite boob in the 1440s.
FYI: My parents are both immigrants.
I’m a first generation American.
This has come up in my life, precisely zero times.
Because it’s not about the law, or jobs, or resources, it’s about skin color.
If you’re worried about putting on a few pounds during this time I have a GREAT tip for you. Ready? Okay:
Stop worrying about that, you’re living through a pandemic. You can have a cookie.
If kids are worried about getting suspended for protesting gun violence and ruining their college prospects I PROMISE YOU “Why I Was Suspended For Fighting the NRA” is a better college admission essay topic than “How Soccer Made Me a Team Player.”
You can’t take organs from a corpse without the deceased’s written permission, even if it will save lives.
When you outlaw abortion, you’re allowing women less bodily autonomy than the dead.
When people say abortion is only okay in cases of rape, they're telling women they only get bodily autonomy if they've already been punished sufficiently.
I’m waiting for a reverse Hallmark Christmas Movie about a small town girl who realizes her community’s politics are terrible, moves to Manhattan, gets a high pressure office job, meets a businessman, and they host a non-denominational holiday party at their penthouse.
People seem to be debating which underage women are okay to have sex with.
It’s none of them. Not the ones who “look older.” Not the ones who seem “flirty.” None of them.
We have laws to help you understand that, but thanks for outing yourselves as creeps and would-be rapists.
Your sexuality isn't determined by a book you read in Kindergarten. It's determined the way God intended -- by watching Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
U.S.: If only there were some way to beat coronavirus, but no one knows
Every country that's beaten COVID: We listened to scientists and paid people to stay home.
U.S.: We'll just never know
In my early 20's, I worked in a bar. Sometimes drunk guys would try to start fights. The very nice bouncer would then basically pick them up and carry them out, so everyone else at the bar could have a good time.
Precisely zero people present thought this was "cancel culture."
Boomers in 2019: “LOL Millennials can’t cook they have no practical skills.”
Boomers in 2020: Willing to risk death to go to Buffalo Wild Wings while Millennials post their thousandth picture of homemade bread.
After 4 months of social distancing I feel like Jack in The Shining could have kept it together a little better. He had THREE people to talk to and a HUGE HOUSE with LOTS OF GHOST FRIENDS.
Conservatives: “What if BILL CLINTON was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring? WHAT THEN, HMM?”
Then I think he should be thrown in jail. There, that was simple.
Now you do the same with Republicans.
For everyone freaking out over the scant outfits worn by J Lo and Shakira last night: here is how cheerleaders dress, I'm sorry you've never seen them before.
I'm currently 7 months pregnant and every morning at dawn I get woken up with cool little kicks.
I just thought "after she's born it'll be so great to get some real sleep again" and OH GOD.
HAVE YOU PARENTS ALL NOT BEEN SLEEPING FOR YEARS!?!?
If a woman tells a joke and you do not laugh, she'll look away, embarrassed.
If a man tells a joke and you do not laugh, he'll repeat it, louder. If you still do not laugh, he will explain "that was a joke"
Somehow this has lead to men concluding that they're the funny gender
Mel Gibson beat his girlfriend when she was holding their infant child, and when she asked him about it on tape, replied "You know what—you fucking deserved it."
Okay, what are the best things from your childhood that no longer exist?
Mine are Blockbuster, Chili’s Hi and Mighty Ice Cream Pie, and the common understanding that Nazis were bad.
If women were making up rape allegations for fame and fortune, 1. Some of these women would be rich and famous by now, 2. There’d be a million rape accusations against, say, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, and hell, probably Oprah.
You know why there aren’t? Because they don’t rape women
Hello, fellow Christians. Jesus was a refugee. Jesus was Middle Eastern. Jesus was Jewish. Jesus told us to take care of the poor. In a season that ostensibly celebrates his word, these are things to consider. Merry Christmas!
An easy solution for men in my timeline who say they are adamant about stopping abortion is to never have sex with a woman unless she wants to get pregnant.
Unplanned pregnancies don’t happen without your sperm.
It’ll save you the trouble of telling women to “shut their legs.”
One thing that bothers me about vampire novels is that vampires are essentially just very old people. They should act like it.
I want to see a sexy vampire who looks like they're in their 20's go on a rant about Woodrow Wilson while chewing hard candies.
If Donald Trump was the villain of a novel I was writing, my editor would tell me I had to give him *some* redeeming quality or it wouldn’t be believable.
HE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A DOG.
@JenAshleyWright
But she's so strident! Just her speaking style, if we can set aside for a moment what's she's speaking about, which is critically impotant I agree. All the more reason to win over a broad base with an agreeable presentation; you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
BREAKING: House Oversight is investigating whether US military expenditures have been propping up Trump Turnberry. A peculiar refueling stop in Glasgow by a US Air Force crew, who stayed overnight at the resort—there & back—tipped them off. Our exclusive:
People talk about caterpillars becoming a butterflies as though they just go into a cocoon, slap on wings, and are good to go.
Caterpillars have to dissolve into a disgusting pile of goo to become butterflies.
So if you’re a mess wrapped up in blankets right now, keep going.
Being in the U.S. right now is like watching a train go off a cliff, except half the people on the train are screaming “I LOVE THIS, THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS TRAIN ARE SO OWNED.”
The most unrealistic part of You is that Joe is a social outcast. If a man who looked like Penn Badgley ran a charming rare book shop in the West Village he’d be on some Most Eligible Bachelor list in New York Magazine and dating Jenny Slate.
CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.
Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
If we survive this, the movies about this administration are going to be fantastic.
If we don’t, the puppet shows performed in the post-apocalyptic rubble will also be pretty good, I guess.
Just saw Tucker Carlson called Tammy Duckworth "deeply silly and unimpressive".
Duckworth lost both her legs in combat before becoming a U.S. Senator.
Tucker Carlson came in 11th on Dancing With the Stars.
Every government official who’s praying for the victims. We HAVE religious leaders. We have priests. We have rabbis. We have ministers. We have imams. None of them can write and enforce laws. Their jobs are spiritual leadership. Your job is legal action.
So, a fun art history fact! Flies are used to represent rot, wasting away, decay, death, melancholia.
A fly hovering over a church official or nobleman indicates disfavor with the king or corruption and dereliction of duty.
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS
and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
Often I see this situation play out re: abortion.
1) A man says he’s anti-abortion
2) A woman painstakingly explains why she needed one
3) The man says “oh, *yours* was fine, I meant other ones.”
That’s all of them. They’re all exceptions. They’re all unique. You’re pro-choice.
Guys: Women make up sexual assault claims to get famous!
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the number of women who became beloved stars after coming forward about sexual assault held steady at 0%.
So, here’s why trickle down economics does not work: when you give rich people more money, they put it in the stock market. They do not think “Now I, a banker, will open a small wedding cake business and hire teens!”
In retrospect, maybe the people crying on election night weren't "fragile snowflakes" but "people who rightly predicted incompetent leadership would end in unnecessary death.”
The year is 2035. AOC is President. I'm washing dishes after dinner with my teenaged child.
Child: Mom, can you tell me about 2020?
The glass shatters in my hand.
There is something wrong in this country when a person like Stormy Daniels can go on a national TV program and be applauded by a live audience. What exactly are these people celebrating?
Just a reminder for anyone who needs it that ”you have to love yourself before you can be loved” is bullshit. You’re still worthy of love and kindness even if you’re depressed, or anxious, or unhappy.
Just a reminder that the aphorism is "one bad apple spoils the barrel" not "one bad apple should in no way reflect on all these other apples in the barrel.”