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Brandy Jensen Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“A relationship coming to an end when I wanted it to continue is quite bad, but discovering that other people knew it would be ending long before I did is intolerable.”
— Brandy Jensen, Dear Fuck-Up: I Feel Guilty That I Reneged on My Best Friend
Tagged: Betrayal, Being blindsided, Relationships, Dating Advice, Advice, Co-regulation, Coregulation, Social Skills, Embarassment, Shame, Humiliation
“Grief has become a sort of all-encompassing buzzword of late, as a way to capture the feeling of living through calamity, but I don’t think we should be so quick to call that feeling one of grieving.”
— Brandy Jensen, I Think I’m Responsible for My Dad’s Death
Tagged: Guilt, Grief
“There are not hundreds of women accusing Allen, not 60, nor 10, just one. One little girl who you can see worshipping her father in home movies, who you can see suffering to this day because people still worship her father.”
— Brandy Jensen, There's No Defending Woody Allen After Allen v. Farrow
Tagged: Woody Allen, Abuse, Dylan Farrow
“I’m not sure I have many valuable lessons to take into my next relationship, but I am confident I can handle making breakfast.”
— Brandy Jensen, How to Poach an Egg and Leave a Marriage
Tagged: Love, Divorce, Marriage, Leaving
“People think they want the truth, of course — but that is simply not borne out by human experience, which is really just a series of hypocrisies.”
— Brandy Jensen, I Think About The Last Scene of The Hills A Lot
Tagged: Honesty, Life, Reality TV, Perception
“In truth I doubt I’ve been ready for anything in my life. Especially for things to end, which I have been thinking about a great deal lately.”
— Brandy Jensen, AAFU: I’m still in therapy. Should I be dating?
Tagged: therapy, Dating, Self-awareness, Baggage, Healing
“I hope this awful bitch I worked with years ago can never find jeans that really work on her, and also that she may have unfettered access to abortion services should she need them.”
— Brandy Jensen, Can I Call My Ex-Friend a Whore and Still Be a Feminist?
Tagged: feminism, Women
“It is no brave thing to stand with the powerful against those who dare live differently, it’s the easiest and most comfortable choice you can make.”
— Brandy Jensen, My Close Friend Is Being Radicalized On the Internet and I Don’t Know What to Do
Tagged: Alt-Right, TERF, Terfs, bigotry
“When these thoughts first appear, they seem impossible—until they aren’t.”
— Brandy Jensen, I'm Ashamed That My Biological Clock Is Ticking
Tagged: Biological Clock, kids, Intrusive Thoughts
“What a treat—like a perfectly flaky croissant brought to me in bed by a woman who wears a vintage robe but in a way that makes it look fresh and casual rather than hopelessly affected.”
— Brandy Jensen, Why Is My Life So Perfect?
Tagged: Perfectionism, Life, Imposter Syndrome
“The knowledge that I had made a mistake in marrying this man didn’t come to me quickly. It was slow and oblique and easy to avoid confronting head-on. Perhaps the problem was that I didn’t like my job. Perhaps buying a house would fix things.”
— Brandy Jensen, How to Poach an Egg and Leave a Marriage
Tagged: Marriage, Women, Relationships
“You have in no way missed the window on finding a satisfying career or a stable relationship, if those are things that you want. And that’s a question you should spend some time with. Do you actually want a life like the ones the people you follow on social media are pretending to have (because absolutely everyone is pretending in one way or another)? Is it simply the stability that comes with conforming to a life plan the world tells you makes sense? Will you still feel like you’re missing out when they begin posting about divorces or being underwater on a mortgage?”
— Brandy Jensen, Dear Fuck-Up: I feel like I’m falling behind my peers
Tagged: Failure, late bloomers, Success, How to be a writer, Instagram
“I am going to share an insight it took me altogether too long to realize. When you’re in your early twenties and older men are interested in you, it is not a flattering reflection of your own wit or intelligence or maturity. Rather, it’s more likely an indication that these men have neither the ability or the inclination to date women who have figured out what they want and how to ask for it. There are exceptions, of course, but here’s the rule: you’re not exceptionally interesting, they’re just tedious.”
— Brandy Jensen, Introducing: Ask a Fuck Up
Tagged: Dating, Love, 20-Somethings, Older men
“The notion that we are all beholden to one another was terrifying, because I always felt insufficient to the task. But eventually a very simple thing dawned on me: I felt insufficient because I was repeatedly, through my choices and actions, failing to meet the minimum requirements of being a person who cares for others. Being a fuck-up is not a matter of ontology but a matter of ethics, i.e. — it’s not who you are but what you do.”
— Brandy Jensen, Dear Fuck-Up: I behaved poorly and now I feel bad
Tagged: Messing Up, human, Behavior, Behavioral Psychology
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