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

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

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend 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.

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

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