People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.