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

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.

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.

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.