Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

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

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

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.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.