If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.