The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.