“I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to gro...” — Jane Hamilton Quote

“I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.”

“I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.”

“Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.”

“I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.”

“When I was transitioning, I assumed that cis woman had it down somehow, that they'd had this childhood and they understood what it meant to be a woman, and that they weren't troubled by their failures or that they didn't even have failures as women. Just whatever they did was magically what a woman did, axiomatically.”