βIf I was βfree,β as so many male writers have been free, I would be impoverished. Why should all my time be my own, just because I write books? There are human responsibilities, and those include responsibilities to daily life, to common human work. I mean, cleaning up, cooking, all the work that must be done over and over all oneβs life, and also the school concert and the impossible geometry homework and so on. Responsibility is privilege. If you delegate that work to others, youβve copped out of the very source of your writing, which after all is life, isnβt it, just living, people living and working and trying to get along.β