{"author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn’t popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke meth, and routinely gulp down narcotic petri dishes in hopes of obtaining hallucinogenic intimacy with junkie boyfriends. But most of all, it made me waste my youth chasing, obsessing over, fighting for, worshipping, clinging to, and crying over one after another loser. At some point, I just quit giving a fuck.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["another","feminist","just","maggie","number","quote","young"],"id":13673,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["feminism","maggie","south","the","young"],"id":21465,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["app","dating","digital","digital-dating","feminist","humor","maggie-young","maggie-young","millennial","millennial","modern-romance","single","single","smartphone","tinder"],"id":21548,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["female-","feminism","feminist","millennial-","millennial-feminists","millennial-women"],"id":21846,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["feminism","feminist","maggie","quote","young"],"id":24288,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["feminist","maggie-young","maggie-young","millennial-","millennial-writers","motivational"],"id":27843,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"Millennials: We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated high school into terrorist attacks and wars. We graduated college into a recession and mounds of debt. We will never acquire the financial cushion, employment stability, and material possessions of our parents. We are often more educated, experienced, informed, and digitally fluent than prior generations, yet are constantly haunted by the trauma of coming of age during the detonation of the societal structure we were born into. But perhaps we are overlooking the silver lining. We will have less money to buy the material possessions that entrap us. We will have more compassion and empathy because our struggles have taught us that even the most privileged can fall from grace. We will have the courage to pursue our dreams because we have absolutely nothing to lose. We will experience the world through backpacking, couch surfing, and carrying on interesting conversations with adventurers in hostels because our bank accounts can't supply the Americanized resorts. Our hardships will obligate us to develop spiritual and intellectual substance. Maybe having roommates and buying our clothes at thrift stores isn't so horrible as long as we are making a point to pursue genuine happiness.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["america","american-","baby-boomers","generations","millennial-","millennial-writers","millennials","poverty","recession"],"id":30129,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"It is not your job to convince men to like you.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["2015","feminism","feminist-","feminist","feminist-writers","just-another-number","liberation","millennial","millennial-feminsts","quotes","why-we-need-feminism","womens-liberation"],"id":47980,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see her blank, hazel eyes, and her bright, but empty, smile with chronic, artificial, exaggerated cheer, and become scared. I often wondered if she was buried under layers upon layers of southern sugar. I would make bitchy, inappropriate statements and look for her. I would say something, anything to shake her and look into her eyes for something real. I saw it when she was upset or afraid. I saw it when she’d spot me exiting my bathroom, hair tied back, knowing what I’d done. I saw it when she found out I was raped. I saw it when I told her about the drugs I used. I saw flickers of a real person, but she quickly disappeared within herself once she gathered composure. I decided not to be like her. Even if it meant embracing my demons, I wanted to be real. After a couple doses, I would toss the meds in the garbage.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["family","just-another-number","just-another-number","maggie-young","maggie-young","medication","southern-families"],"id":86614,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"My life views on sex, men, dating, and self-worth were sculpted with the unfiltered ramblings of a drunken misogynist.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["another","feminism","feminist","just","number","quote"],"id":88321,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}