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

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.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

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

Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.