I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

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

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 probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.