Freud once said that he didn't think psychoanalysis could work on the Irish. I'm very interested in what genuine goodness is. One of the things that really angers me is that for so many women goodness is synonymous with chastity, or being quiet. First of all, that's a very limited moral palette, and second, it can also just be a blind for fear or begrudgement. I was always the person who got in trouble when the girls who were good in penmanship, and who were tidy, told on me, because they thought I got away with too much.
Tidiness is synonymous with goodness for women.
Fun is you talk to your girlfriends and you laugh. No, people want to look at her, for about ten minutes. And then you move on. I am just so tired of that. Your most recent book, Spending, is about a painter named Monica who finds herself suddenly with a wealthy muse, lover, and benefactor all rolled into one.