Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

What It Boils Down To Is That Parenting A Child With Autism Is A Difficult Job; Writing About It Is Far Easier.

Having A Mother Who Had Been An Aeronautical Engineer Convinced Me That More Things Should Be Open To Women.

Empress Of The Universe Would Be Way Too Much Work. I'd Have To Wear Fancy Clothes, Probably Including Lady Shoes With Pointed Toes, And Could No Longer Slouch Into The Study In Pjs And Slippers. Someone Would (avert!) Straighten My Desk. Someone Would Reorganize My Yarn Stash...in Fact, They'd Assign Someone Else To Knit My Socks, Thus Depriving Me Of An Excuse To Rest My Brain While Pretending To Accomplish Something Useful.

Even If A Tamed Wolf Makes A Good Sheepdog, He Will Never Understand How The Sheep Feel....you Are Most Fortunate. For Having Been, As You Thought, A Coward, And Helpless To Fight - You Know What That Is Like. You Know What Bitterness That Feeling Breeds - You Know In Your Own Heart What Kind Of Evil It Brings. And So You Are Most Fit To Fight It Where It Occurs.

Now My Mother, Interestingly Enough, Was Not A Feminist In Her Own Mind.