For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague … - Kate Zambreno

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Kate Zambreno

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 to transcend it.

Describe, Feelings, Language, Muted, Years

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The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. "

Against, Anais, Biography, Girl, Men, Writing

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

Book, Ifs, Perceived, Thinking, Woman

She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.

Hands, Interplay, Light, Lonely, Repetition, Smoked

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 sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

Conflicts, Incubated, Keys, Thinking, Truth, Writing

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

Canon, Differently, Memoir, Reviewed, Think, Thinking