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I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.