Quotes by Linda Tirado

[W]hen its slow, they send you home, and when its busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someones shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, theyre expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I dont pay a thing and a half this week instead of just one thing? Its not like the sacrifice will result in improved circumstances; the thing holding me back isnt that I blow five bucks at Wendys. Its that now that I have proven that I am a Poor Person that is all that I am or ever will be. It is not worth it to me to live a bleak life devoid of small pleasures so that one day I can make a single large purchase. I will never have large pleasures to hold on to. Theres a certain pull to live what bits of life you can while theres money in your pocket, because no matter how responsible you are you will be broke in three days anyway. When you never have enough money it ceases to have meaning. I imagine having a lot of it is the same thing.

We eat junk because its cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because its an effective way to feel good or escape something.

Living in low-income neighborhoods, Ive seen sexual health campaigns aimed at slut-shaming us into celibacy. They talk about things like self-esteem and value and all the usual abstinence arguments. They assume that our bodies are a gift that we should bestow selectively on others, rather than the one thing that can never be anything but our own. Even if we do share it, it is ours irrevocably.These are the bodies that hold the brains were supposed to shut off all day at work, the same bodies that arent important enough to heal. These are the bodies that come with the genitalia that we should be so protective of? I really dont understand the logic.You cant tell us that our brains and labor and emotions are worth next to nothing and then expect us to get all full of intrinsic worth when it comes to our genitals. Either were cheap or were not.Make up your fucking mind.