Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

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.

My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not conventionally attractive.

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