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

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.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

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 housewife, or a sick person.

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!

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 for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

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

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.