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.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

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

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!

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

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