The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.