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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ”
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. ”
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ”
I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me. ”
Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be. ”
The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants. ”
What, do you think that feminism means you hate men? ”
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. ”
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors. ”
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category. ”