to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.