I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.