Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.