Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino (born November 20, 1988) is a Canadian-born American writer and editor.

Quotes

• …there are individual ways that we work our way through all of these systems that are corrosive and inescapable. But if there is a solution to the system itself, it’s at a collective level. It’s the level of policy and politics, it’s not at the level of individual choice.
  • On why her book Trick Mirror offers no solutions in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in AnOther (2019 Sep 15)

• …I act like a hopeful person, but I think that hope is based on having zero expectations. I’ve never expected anything out of life, so I’ve never been disappointed…
  • On whether she considers herself hopeful in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in AnOther (2019 Sep 15)

• I like to write about modern instincts that are in some way good. And also in some way dangerous.
  • On being drawn to the small domestic truths of life in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)

• The whole ‘girlboss’ realm, actually. Anything that is treating the magnification of a personal brand, or the acquisition of wealth as the ultimate prize, is just fully out the window. The way those books treat little girls as if they’re generic? I get sent so many self-help books that are about like, ‘perfectly imperfect’, ‘badass feminists’ that ‘don’t give a fuck’, but then the fuck is bleeped out? You know what I mean?
  • On books that chronicle badass women in history in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)