A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same way that it's more literary to write about supposedly male subjects, such as war. You're considered more seriously by the literary establishment.

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.