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

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

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.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.