The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

The British have always made terrible parents.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.