I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.

I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.

I'm SO trying to give up meat.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.