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No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

No floodgate had been opened. No vault of true womanhood unlocked. She remained, and she was me.

That being said, it's horrible when people you hate get things you want.

Our minifridge had nothing but tres leches cake in it.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I was raised on the Internet.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Hell hath no fury like a woman who has accidentally napped.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!

Each corner is a memory. In that way, it's just like every town.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I'm both needy and unavailable.

I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.

I can't find a goddamn fucking job and I'm too fat to be a stripper, I said as I polished off a stale croissant.

I especially like it when a guy starts out rude, explains that it's a defense mechanism, and then turns even ruder once I get to know him.

You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

Everyone needs something from me.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Trading sandy tubes of lip gloss and glow-in-the-dark barrettes.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

I don't really read reviews ... That's not where my attention goes.

I'm not super thin, but I'm thin, for like, Detroit

This, I remember thinking, is the end. Nothing had ever ended before.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.

I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

I miss her the way I missed our loft after we moved in seventh grade: sharply, and then not at all. There is too much unpacking to do.

I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying "rim job" in casual conversation.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying,

How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means?

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Let this book take you to the stars and beyond.

D. J. Tanner called and she wants her wardrobe back so it can be included in a museum retrospective about the prime years of Full House.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

Drunk emotions aren't real emotions.

I have an agent now.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.

In my deepest self I know this, and the knowledge has kept me from sinking.

Getting naked feels better some days than others. (Good: when you are vaguely tan. Bad: when you have diarrhea.)

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

You can't draw blood from a stone,

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

That's also how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere and going elsewhere and that they would recognize me when they saw me.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

I dance the hardest, laugh the hardest at my own jokes, and make casual reference to my vagina, like it's a car or a chest of drawers.

Mouseburger: unpretty, unspecial, unformed.

What a goon. He's lucky to know you, but too stupid to ever realize it.

You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

You're forcing sex when I just want to be heard.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

I couldn't always remember his face, so my visual for him became my feet, bare and pale and pressed against the wall as we talked for hours.