Comments on: But We Were Born To Be Coddled https://booksquare.com/but-we-were-born-to-be-coddled/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=but-we-were-born-to-be-coddled Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Boohoo https://booksquare.com/but-we-were-born-to-be-coddled/#comment-25034 Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:52:59 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/26/956/#comment-25034 The men behind the successful women–Grafton’s husband, Rowling’s, Roberts’s–are freeloaders, not helpmeets. The men behind the striving women writers are paying the bills and trying to justify not cooking dinner more often.

Neat, huh?

]]> By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/but-we-were-born-to-be-coddled/#comment-24649 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:42:51 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/26/956/#comment-24649 Yes, yes, I know. Miss Cranky was out in full force yesterday. I even made her take an afternoon nap. I suspect this problem is endemic to all women writers…it’s normal for interviews to discuss the domestic problems they face, but the issue seems taboo for males (I have seen a few interviews where men do address this issue, just not enough — and usually the sacrifice [and it is sacrifice] comes in the form of getting up before the kids].

]]> By: Karen https://booksquare.com/but-we-were-born-to-be-coddled/#comment-24640 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:00:26 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/26/956/#comment-24640 Women who write literary fiction can’t thumb their noses at the ordinary world, either. They also manage meals and kids. But I know what you mean about the reviews of this collection being a bit of a turn-off.

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