"Women’s time has been interrupted and fragmented throughout history, the rhythms of their days circumscribed by the sisyphean tasks of housework, childcare and kin work – keeping family and community ties strong. If what it takes to create are long stretches of uninterrupted, concentrated time, time you can choose to do with as you will, time that you can control, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect, at least not without getting slammed for unseemly selfishness."
A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself | Brigid Schulte | Opinion | The Guardian
and not just writers in olden times, but today too. After reading this article re ishiguro, I joked w my students, who are mostly women, that all we need is a wife (not a huz not a partner, but a "wife" to do all the work of managing life), so we have to become our own wives to take care of ourselves in a way that makes writing happen. https://www.theguardian.com/.../kazuo-ishiguro-the...
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