Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

For anyone that has ever done a sex scene, it takes on the feeling of learning a ridiculous dance, like the electric slide. It's not a sexy experience.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.