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.

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

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

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 am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.