because when you know that the other person have faith in the project and the nature of the project and in what you're doing and it comes from a position of profound respect, you don't really feel very harsh. and if you have a high quality reader in your own house, says paul, and i do, we consider ourselves very lucky. we're heading over the brooklyn bridge toward park slope, the brooklyn neighborhood, where paul author and syria, who's bought a brownstone house decades ago. it's a quiet, cozy residential area due to the ban demik. there are even fewer cars than usual. ah. the 2 are also on power in terms of

international acclaim. both have written best sellers. in the u. s. they're considered the star literary couple. but often media reports about who's still describe her as the wife of writer paul last or how does she feel about that? let's see, we stopped your age where you are right now. your age doesn't change, but that would be kind of fun. what the process, by how long do you think it will take until him ever reports about paul? it would say the husband of novelist, serious. but once i deeply understood that this was a cultural way of insisting

that women not assumed positions of authority. and that when a woman clearly assumes her own authority, people not everyone, both men or women by the way, not exclusively men, will be out to punish her. and that punishment will take the form of trying to humiliate her in one way or another, or make her feel less than i've seen it happen to many women over and over and over again. if one understands that this really has nothing to do with who you are, who i am, what i think what i know how i feel. it is much easier to deal with and even laugh at. i mean i have found that he were

hurt. he goes a long way in dealing with sex theory whose has received numerous honorary doctorates and prizes, including the 2019 princess of astoria award, a sort of spanish nobel prize. but what about critics opinions? how much do reviews mean to her? you know, for years i didn't read reviews and i actually told my husband who did read reviews not to and he found great relief in it, not doing it. and then more recently i have read some reviews and i think that i'm able to do it now because i have, maybe it's just being older, but i've acquired a distance from them. i mean, even early on, i remember my 1st novel was so exciting that anyone said anything about it was so thrilling. i remember i had oh, you know,

a reviewer who just thought this was a work of brilliance and genius and it was so wonderful and the following week i had another review that was just, this is trash nurse to stick, you know, creepy trash. and i thought ok, i'm not you know, i'm not either when or the i have to be somewhere in between. not every project as a success though. she keeps a special box for books, sheets fail to complete. now it just, it was a fail patrick, but i really believe that i was, i was working on and some important why the books that i wrote after the so i actually don't look at this with pain. i mean, e, i spent a whole year trying to try to do it. it doesn't, doesn't give me,

doesn't give me hard. and i as a child see re who's that devoured book after book. and she's carried her reading habits into her adult life. for years she spent about 4 hours every day reading sometimes more when she is doing research for her work. her interests span many disciplines including philosophy, psychology, neuro, science, biology, psychiatry, and even embryology. in 2015, she was appointed a lecturer in psychiatry and while cornell medical college in new york and instruct doctors and psychiatrists. ah, because she has no degree in psychiatry, it happens that despite her academic credentials, her students don't always take her seriously. me. the fact that

even though it seems peculiar to people, you know, i do give lectures at various academic conferences. i publish papers and both science and academic journals. i think people find this odd because unless you have a degree in what you're talking about, there's a certain suspicion. the truth is we all of us, every single one of us. if you devote the time to learning whatever it is you want to learn, you can learn it. i think people are surprised. they don't think that so no. but it does take time. it takes many, many hours. and i think for a lot of people starting at square,

one is painful and it can be painful, especially if you're an older person. oh, you mean i have to, you know, learn this, you know, this from the very beginning. well, yes to do. over the past 4 years, syria who's tried has been more politically active than ever before. the 2020 election. she, her husband and their daughter, founded the website writers against trump, together with a number of fellow authors and intellectuals. the, their main aim was to motivate young people in the swing states, to vote writers we know words matter. they matter because they change mind, we have a choice to make for the future. for the future of our children. reelection of trump and the republican party could mean the end of democracy in america. since the election, the website has continued under the name writers for democratic action. i think you

can't let down your guard. it is a relief, however, to have a new administration for we know for years. but the authoritarian forces are still with us. the democracy is still fragile and i feel very, very strongly about continuing to fight for change in this country. racial change, change for families, children and women, and just a wonderful creating a united states that is closer to what is articulated in the constitution. and especially in the preamble, where it says, we, the people, well, we, the people at the time of that,

of the writing of that preamble was of chris white men with property. it was not women, it was not people of any other color than white or jews. so what we need is a continually actively expanding democracy. that is for everyone, not just every story we tell about ourselves can only be told in the past tense. it winds backwards from where we now stand, no longer the actors in the story. but it's spectators who have chosen to speak. you said a few years ago that when you looked in the mirror,

if at the age of 40 you were not as happy with yourself as when you looked in the mirror when you were 50. can you remember that? yeah, i think so here is a very interesting thing about the aging face, which is that, 1st of all, i think most of us don't keep up with her age and faces. we have a tendency to have a somewhat younger internal model which is probably good for all of us. and also, we're not looking at ourselves all the time. right? this is the phenomenology of, of, of the person is that i'm looking at you and you're looking at me, but you're not seeing yourself look at me. but one of the advantages of having an older face may be, especially for a woman, and maybe, especially for a woman that was considered a pretty woman when she was younger,

is that the older face is taken more seriously. and you know, if you've been condescending to as many times as i have, that old case comes in very ah, in the the the news

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