I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

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

I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

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.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.