We chart delusions through collective agreement.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.

I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy.