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

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don’t want to be involved with an asshole who’s used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.