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.

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.

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

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

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.

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

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