Acne Quotes

“When you’re first starting out, pick one thing that you want to do and go hard at it. Tell everyone you meet that’s what you want to do. Learn everything you can about that one thing. And your path will become easier.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne

“We were not “ride or die” chicks. We were chicks who would ride away immediately and leave you to die. My friends and I were like roughneck alley cats all fighting over the same fish skeleton.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne

“One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the time I thought that sounded so cool, but now I can see clearly that she was raped. There was such a fine line between cool and raped in those days. We had no idea that certain behavior was inappropriate because it was all normal to us.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne

“As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne

“She had a very childlike face, and in our pedophiliac culture, looking like a child is every woman’s beauty goal. But she grew up in a tough environment, so to offset her cherubic face, she intentionally deepened her voice and cursed more than any adult I knew. She looked like an American Girl doll and talked like a crusty old war veteran who had seen too much. She had the worldly confidence of a much older girl and she got even more confident when her full pubic bush grew in.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne

“Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan has a sort of waxy sheen on it forever. My parents were hippies and didn’t do anything according to the status quo. I’m pretty sure my father still wakes up every morning, checks in on what the entire world is doing, and then does the opposite.”
― Laura Chinn, Acne