I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

I think nudity is related to everything.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .