Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

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.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

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

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

See the truth, and you will see me.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.