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

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.

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.

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

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

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.