I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.