I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.