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

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.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.