There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!

When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.