Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.

The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.