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

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

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.

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'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

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 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.