I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
I’m just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone’s welcome to join me.
At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
I’m always afraid that I’m being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails ‘xoxo.’
You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.
My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I’ve started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.
But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.
I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
Everyone needs something from me.
I think that it’s very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they’re reflecting back at you.
It’s really hard to grow with another person.
The parts I enjoy playing aren’t really available to me. So I have to write them.
There’s people who don’t want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
I had no friends. I worried a lot.
I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.
The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.
Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It’s sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.
I’ve always been someone who feels better, if I see what I’m going through in a movie.
There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’