I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

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

You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.