People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
