I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

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

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

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.