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.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

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.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

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