Women Write Sentimental Stories About Love, Men Write Important Books.... and Other Such Nonsense

Adrien Jean Medial, 1873, named “Peeling Potatoes”, but the painting could just as well have been named “Reading Books”. Why do you think it wasn’t?

It is Women’s History Month.

It has always been a crucial part of my writing, the chasm between forgetting and remembering, the deep split between collective amnesia and ancestral memory.

For the same reason…