I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.

People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear designer clothes and are magically thin and more evolved. And that's wonderful. Over here, we're still fighting for birth control.

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.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

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 believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.