My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

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.

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

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.