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

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

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

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.