I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

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

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

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 wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

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.