I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
I'm a writer first and a woman after.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
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