The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

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

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.

I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.