I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

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

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.