I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

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

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

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.

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.

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.