In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.