I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

When someone anonymous tells me I'm fat, that's not a person to me. If they're not going to acknowledge me as a person, I'm certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

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.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.