I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.

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.

I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.