I Had, Of Course, No Model For

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

People Are People, Messy And Mutable, Combining Differently With One Another From Day To Day - Even Hour To Hour.

You Can Also Make Explicit Certain Social Problems Which, Again, Would Be Prejudged Or Not Encountered At All In Real Life, Because People Have Set Up Defenses Against It. Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

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.

When A Person Responds Emotionally To Intellectual Things, Or Emotionally Only To Traditional Emotional Things - I Find That An Interesting Break Between Myself And Some Other Writers And Fans.