"…A lot of women write about messy, complex and complicated things. Our lives and experiences as women are complicated, and very dense, and on some levels, I think more multidimensional, because we have a whole lot more to deal with. Men don’t have periods. They don’t have babies, and nowadays they don’t have to worry about just taking care of a family. We women do all of that. And so, I find on some levels, our lives are a little bit more interesting…"
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On being insulted by the term “chick lit” in “An Interview with Terry McMillan” in Read It Forward (2016) (an archived copy on The Internet Archive)
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