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

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.

By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.

In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

I think that women should be decorative.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.