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

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

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

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

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

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.