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

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!

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

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

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.

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