I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

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

I like blogs. they're good times.

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

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.