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

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview a female celebrity, I'd just go in and interview them like I'd interview any human being and talk about the things that interested me. And you'd come back, and you'd file your copy. And then my editor would read through my copy and go, why haven't you asked them if they want kids? And I'd be like, well, I don't know, I interviewed Aerosmith last week. And I didn't ask them that.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.