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

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative space.

I write because I love doing it.

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