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What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

I'm not saying that if you're working at home, raising a family, that's not work. I want to disrupt the narrative around what it means to be a woman who works. The whole point of my brand is that women should be architecting the lives they want to live.