And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.
You want a love story too? There's none to be had.
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.
I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.