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

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

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

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.

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

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

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