That she could be an effective problem solver, as women are in reality but not very often in fiction or on the screen." She wanted to create a strong female character "who could be a whole person, which meant that she could be a sexual person without being evil. Sara Paretsky says that she saw too many women in fiction being portrayed as "using their bodies to try and make good boys do bad things: it was just a constant in literature of all kinds." One of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction was born of her creator's desire for equality for a fictional woman gumshoe. So there I am doing stuff that's disgusting, time wasting and absurd just because anything is better than facing that screen." And yet, you sit there, you look at that screen and you think - and I'm a bad housekeeper - and you think: I could use a toothbrush and get that mold around the toilet. I get paid and not a lot of writers get paid well enough not to have to work a day job.
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