This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.
Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we're right-on feminists, but underneath that, there's still the bedrock of romance.
For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair.
In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?
So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.
