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

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

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

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

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.

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.