A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. Relationship.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.