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" I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way. "
Mallory Ortberg
Way
Wish
Feel
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" The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay. "
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" Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart. "
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" There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.' "
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" Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have. "
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" In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. "
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Nuts
Great
" Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored. "
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" I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal. "
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" It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies. "
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" The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition. "
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Process
You
Successful
" With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow. "
Mallory Ortberg
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" Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want. "
Mallory Ortberg
Control
Creative
Jokes
" My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor. "
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Woman
Parents
Mother
" I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful. "
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Faith
Something
" When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in. "
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Gum
Twenty
Had
" I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor. "
Mallory Ortberg
Life
Now
World
" I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. "
Mallory Ortberg
Women
Freedom
Fun
" My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy. "
Mallory Ortberg
Teacher
Feel
Gossip
" I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective. "
Mallory Ortberg
Faith
Cool
Reading
" When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding. "
Mallory Ortberg
Sun
Woman
Image
" A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself. "
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Feel
Energy
Creative
" I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do. "
Mallory Ortberg
College
Think
Love
" I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing. "
Mallory Ortberg
Academic
Degree
English
" It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents. "
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Parents
Two
Up
" Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!' "
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