Harrowing! Touching!
This explains the best how the gifts of prose come along with agony and trauma, but actually, the suffering is the blessing, the words are the fruits of a mental toil and depression. And in a broad sense, every single soul is suffering, that's why these proses help like roses! It's only when someone shares one's shortcomings and vulnerability, we feel that we're not alone.
Her words mostly hit on the subconscious, that why they're larger than a single experience and a metaphor for a spectrum of pain.
I didn't take it much to a feminist perspective but from an individual human, doomed to be an island universe within!
I found Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Cut, A Birthday Present and Fever 103 to be most compelling