Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.