People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.