People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.