We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.