Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.