People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

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 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.

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

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.

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