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 do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

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

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

The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

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