I Don't Think Coolness Used To Be

For Me, Stripping Was An Unusual Kind Of Escape. I Had Nothing To Escape But Privilege, But I Claimed Asylum Anyway. At Twenty-four, It Was My Last Chance To Reject Something And Become Nothing. I Wanted To Terrify Myself. Mission Accomplished.

To Aspiring Writers, I Would Tell Them That We Live In A Wonderful Time Where You're Able To Make Your Work Visible, Easily. If You Think About It, Even Ten Years Ago Or Twenty Years Ago, There Was A Middle Man, There Was A Publisher, There Were Studios, There Was This World Of Rejection Letters. Now, We're In A Place Where We Have The Technology And The Ability To Go Shoot Our Own Movies Or To Put Stuff On Youtube Or A Blog, If You're A Writer, Or Self-publish.

You Definitely Meet A Lot Of Extremely Powerful, Successful, Wealthy People In Hollywood Who Are Extremely Miserable.

There's This Double Standard That Exists And It Really Frustrates Me. If A Woman Chooses To Work, People Say, "oh It's So Sad That You're Not At Home With Your Children." But No One Ever Says That To A Man Because It's Assumed That The Man Is Going To Be The Provider.

You Know, I Did Not Like Being Famous. It Was A Stressful And Ugly Time, And I'm Glad It's Over.