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

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housew….

Patriarchy is having the power to name..

I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejour….

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

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came….

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

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!.

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

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 un….

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't ha….

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..

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

The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, ….

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots..

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

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 postmarita….

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside..

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, ….

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature.".

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance..