What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

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.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

A man once believed he could fly—and he did. Another believed he could walk on the moon—and he did. Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true? Why not see the stars as reachable?

Never give up on the idea you can become great. Always grab on the possibility you can become successful.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I never cheat unless you count the girls I cheat on

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.