I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

...he spent whole days and nights over his books

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.