When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

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