You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

I have to remind myself that when you exercise, there is a natural calm that comes from knowing that you did something with your body that day. Actually going and working out makes everything else easier and better.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

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