I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel...
" 'I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel,' she says. 'In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them…' "
—Eleanor Catton