به من گفت که بین مردم گفته میشود که رمان من فمینیستی است و نصیحتش به من این بود -- هنگام صحبت سرش را با ناراحتی تکان می‌داد -- که من هرگز نباید خودم را یک فمینیست بنامم چون فمینیستها زنانی هستند که ناراحتند چون نمیتوانند شوهر پیدا کنند. 
He told me that people were saying that my novel was feminist and his advice to me -- and he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke -- was that I should never call myself a feminist because feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. 