The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
I didn’t fancy the linearity of conventional biographies,” he said. “Lives don’t run in straight lines, and every time we think about them in retrospect (i.e., every time we start remembering) we actually rethink them. Our lives are stories we write and rewrite. There is no single reliable narrative of a life.”