Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

She has given me a way out.

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.