I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.