It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ยญothers are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.