There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

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

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.