So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

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.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?