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

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

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.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

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.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

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.