Emma McLaughlin Quotes

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

Keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me.

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

Being back here - I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if you half-ass it.

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

if you're going to do something darling, then do it all the way

uncoordinated and enthusiastic. a lethal combination

It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.