The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.