Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

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

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world.