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I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.