Everything's Trash, But It's Okay Quotes

“Harassment is not just about harming you that one time; it’s about lingering around for every time afterwards and chipping away at you without you realizing it.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“...women are conditioned to waste hours, days, weeks, months (although, truth be told, it's most likely years) doubting, undermining, and ultimately hating parts, if not all, of themselves based solely on "problems" with their bodies that can be solved by buying products from an industry that invented these problems in the first place. How fucking convenient. And when all is said and done, what is the prize for this self-torture? Fitting neatly within society's destructive narrative about the female body.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“For some women, the mere thought of a dong makes their vajeens let out the driest of coughs.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“It was so hot that I get why the devil leaves hell to take an Airbnb vacation to the polar ice caps and melts them because he's mad at living in such a hot-ass home.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“So that one night after the Bumble rando blew me off and I was emotionally ravaged, practically kneeling on the ground, arms out in the Scott Stapp/Jesus position a la Andy Dufresne on the poster of Shawshank Redemption, I thought to myself, ‘Am I going to fall the fuck apart every single time some guy I meet doesn’t end up being the one?”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“admittedly it's kind of a trash move, like at a wedding when the minister basically goes: 'if you think this union is a steaming pile of doo-doo, then totes feel free to stand up and give everyone your amazon 1-star review of the couple's relationship.'

first of all minister, why are you being a messy lil bitch? people put on nice underwear, use shick mock 5 razors to get the smoothest shave, dressed in tacky bridesmaid dresses and goofy ass colonel sanders beige suits, paid for flights and hotel rooms, both the bride and groom, bride and bride, or groom and groom went through the painful process of cutting certain folks from the guest list and the wedding band had to learn both journey and earth wind and fire's entire catalogue, and now you want to take the temperature of the room?"

64%”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“Oh! And remember a few years ago when a dude in the US legit had Ebola and went bowling and ate chicken wings with friends instead of quarantining himself because #WhiteNonsense? Say it with me: Dumpster. Fire.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“It’s a damn shame that it wasn’t until I became a size 10/12 that I truly realized the body-shaming spell I’m under. That we’re all under.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“Naw, bruh. “What having a job is” includes getting a lunch break or being paid overtime or indefinitely mailing out your Forever 21 returns via your job’s UPS account because that one time your boss made you work three minutes past 1 P.M. on a Summer Friday like four years ago and you still haven’t gotten the fuck over it.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

“Not to get all Game of Thrones on ya, but you can call me Phoebe of the House Robinson, First of Her Name, the Blerd, Drinker of Rose and Also Chardonnay when Rose Is Not An Option, Khaleesi of Ignorance, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Trash.”
― Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay