Quotes from Jenny Mollen

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!

I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.

I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells us is crazy.

I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

Very few things are off-limits for me.

I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.

It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!

Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.

Chelsea Handler is a good friend of mine, and I always was inspired by the fact that she was taking her life and turning it into these ridiculous, raunchy memoirs. She really has a talent, and she's a great writer. I was inspired by her trajectory.

Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

From your first kid, your body still kind of looks the same once you get back in shape.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.