There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't."

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.