and for every future women writers.
“I know it’s hard to write, darling. But it’s harder not to.”
http://therumpus.net/2010/08/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-48-write-like-a-motherfucker/
"I often explain to my mother that to be a writer/a woman/a woman writer means to suffer mercilessly and eventually collapse in a heap of “I could have been better than this.”
“The first product of self-knowledge is humility,” --- Flannery O’Connor