Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.