My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

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

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

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

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.

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.