The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.