The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.