To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

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

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

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

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.