The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.