Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

We are awash in the revealed world.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance