“It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.”

“Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.”

“The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.”

“Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.”

“A loud smile is often a fake laugh.”

“I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.”

“When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back.”

“To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.”

“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or no...”

“So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.”