What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.