Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

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

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.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear designer clothes and are magically thin and more evolved. And that's wonderful. Over here, we're still fighting for birth control.