For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.