I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.