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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much.
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women’s movement.
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says.
I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
All my friends’ mothers were appalling women.
My father was in the First World War.
When there’s a war, people get married.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.