I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.