I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
In a life properly lived, you're a river.
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.