Age should be no consideration between two people romantically or sexually involved. Social approval shouldn't even be considered.
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.
I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.