“Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or...” — Alexandra Kleeman Quote

“Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us.”

“I feel like women bond with other women in this nonverbal way, where they take on each other's gestures. You start dressing more like each other, you eat the same food... It's a way of expressing regard: I want to be like you. Which is flattering, but if you view it another way, terrifying.”

“You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.”

“I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.”

“As a culture, we really like our food passive.”

“I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.”

“Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.”

“It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.”

“Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.”

“Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.”

“Medicine also disregards national boundaries.”