I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.
Eleanor CattonRemember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.
Eleanor CattonNever underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
Eleanor Catton