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.

I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

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

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.