So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.