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

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.

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.

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

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.