The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.

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

Truth can hurt so very much.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.