Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

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

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.