Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

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'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

I have an authority problem.

I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.