Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.