There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
My father was in the First World War.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.