Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.
Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
Virginia Woolf: Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.
Virginia Woolf: I've been attended by doctors, who inform me OF MY OWN INTERESTS.
Virginia Woolf: I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked.
Virginia Woolf: Do you think I may one day escape? Vanessa Bell: One day.
Virginia Woolf: It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her.
There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.
