Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative space.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

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

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

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.