“From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, ...” — Jenny Zhang Quote

“From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.”

“I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!”

“Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.”

“Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.”

“I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.”

“With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.”

“I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.”

“My relationship to photography and film is knowledge production, and it's how to engage with the world in a way that approximates the complexity of the world - not the desire to have an experience of it that makes you feel good or is just fundamentally narrative.”

“Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.”

“Interpreting the fair play rules has its complexities.”

“I loved doing 'Bad Moms.' I loved doing 'We're the Millers.' But now that I've tasted complexity, it doesn't matter what the genre is - it would be really hard to go back.”

“You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.”