it came down to the fact that isabel paterson wanted to reserve judgment on a is a. and a. is everything. she wanted to leave a little opening for the possibility that there were things we didn't know. let me ask a double pronged follow-up to that question. first, it's my impression that rand is not much studied in women's studies classes. and here is a woman, who was the most influential novelist of ideas, a woman whose books sell forever, better than anybody else's. a woman who wrote a strong heroine, a woman who runs a real road, a woman who twist powerful businessmen around her finger. am i right that they don't talk about her in women's studies courses? and why not? dnssec and i will ask the question, most of the people in the audience are men. but both of your women and so is the authorized biographer that we're all waiting to hear from, as well as the original, semi-authorized biographer. talk about some of those gender issues. >> first of all, feminists tend to be liberals. and i think feminism and socialism share some assumptions, and i think it's very diffi