Apparently my books are “too domestic.” Yes, and yet half the gentlemen in print still can’t manage a sensible proposal. Curious. by Jane Austen

I’m only here to confirm that everyone is taking literature far too personally.

Says the man who treats every entrance like a cannon blast and every exit like a scandal.

Exactly. Some of us write manners. Some of us are a weather event.

Delicate is what people say when they’re frightened by a sharp sentence in a small room.

Anyway, if a novel feels domestic, perhaps the reader is just unfamiliar with women having the final word.

I called your work delicate, not domestic. Please don’t make me the villain of the drawing room.