Kate Zambreno

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

“Ruth loved color so much she rarely wore any. Except on her face.”

— Kate Zambreno

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing…

— Kate Zambreno

I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the…

— Kate Zambreno

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative…

— Kate Zambreno

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read…

— Kate Zambreno

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out…

— Kate Zambreno

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

— Kate Zambreno

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are…

— Kate Zambreno

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

— Kate Zambreno

“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?”

— Kate Zambreno

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of…

— Kate Zambreno

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many…

— Kate Zambreno

“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was…

— Kate Zambreno

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like…

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Kate Zambreno

“She [Mary Maclane] is almost always referred to as “confessional.” She has been referred to, several times, as the first blogger. Whereas…

— Kate Zambreno

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

— Kate Zambreno

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were…

— Kate Zambreno

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Kate Zambreno

“Sometimes she forces herself under water. She pretends she’s dead. She pretends she has drowned. She is Millais’ Ophelia floating down a…

— Kate Zambreno

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that…

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Kate Zambreno