Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.