Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.
Curtis SittenfeldI just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis SittenfeldTo remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
Curtis SittenfeldI think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.
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