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

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….

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

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

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable..

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..

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!.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt ….

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

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….

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 somet….

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….

Patriarchy is having the power to name..

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

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….

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

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, ….

I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our ….

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 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 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….