we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.