Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

I don't like writing. I like having written.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.