We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Anger is really disappointed hope.