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

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.