I don't TALK about FEELINGS, but I write a lot about feelings. READING, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane - it's REALLY insane - but it STILL is in me.

If I were somebody who spent the majority of my TIME saying THINGS that were harsh and difficult to hear, I would WANT my VISUAL aesthetic to be something soft and feminine, warm and easy to be AROUND.

I was 15 when I FIRST read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my BEDROOM, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I COULD find on how not to become my MOTHER.

Throughout my life, I've ALWAYS been really CLOSE with GIRLS and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine PERSON anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't FIND any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I always TRY to KEEP one very feminine QUALITY to my STYLE.

I LIKE to accentuate the FEMININE form, so I'm a big FAN of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be SHOWN off and celebrated. I LOVE a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.

There aren't very many GOOD models of FEMININE rage - and the ONES that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, LIKE ANNA Karenina or Emma Bovary.

I'm LEFT-HANDED: I can think and FEEL at the same TIME. My FEMININE side is very highly developed.

I think, with my own DAUGHTERS, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just REALLY try to help them understand what it meant to be a WOMAN in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

I'm SORT of loving the feminine skirts and the COZY tops, especially when it's STARTING to get a little chilly out.