I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

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

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

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

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.