If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

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.

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.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?