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We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.