I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

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.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

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.