Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.