I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

Another thing I also recommend is washing your face with white towels, little white towels instead of your hands. Other towels have dye in them and, with water on them, I just don't mess around with that. This way you're not getting your hands back on your dirty face as you're washing it. You're going to see what's coming off.

The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.

Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.