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.

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.

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

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.