I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

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

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

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

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.

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.