Comments on: This Is A Man’s World…Or Is It? http://booksbywomen.org/this-is-a-mans-world-or-is-it-by-marie-d-jones/ Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Marie D Jones http://booksbywomen.org/this-is-a-mans-world-or-is-it-by-marie-d-jones/#comment-16906 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:59:25 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11013#comment-16906 In reply to Lori Schafer.

I found my Mars book along with a few others I had forgotten about…they are disintegrating, so I need to laminate or cover them for protection!!!! On the Mars book…my spelling was so awful…but hey, it was my first book!!!

]]> By: Lori Schafer http://booksbywomen.org/this-is-a-mans-world-or-is-it-by-marie-d-jones/#comment-16898 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:38:24 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11013#comment-16898 Every time I hear someone saying “women should only do this” or “men shouldn’t ever do that” (and related equally ridiculous phrases), I get the urge to tell the speaker to take their time machine back to the nineteenth century, where they obviously belong.

Marie, if you ever do decide to release “Life on Mars” please let me know – I’d like to read it. I might even be willing to pay extra for the special cardboard/shoestring cover. 😉

]]> By: Marie D Jones http://booksbywomen.org/this-is-a-mans-world-or-is-it-by-marie-d-jones/#comment-16894 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:59:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11013#comment-16894 In reply to Marialena.

Thank you!!! We are who we are and that is where our stories come from! I appreciate you reading and commenting so much!

]]> By: Marialena http://booksbywomen.org/this-is-a-mans-world-or-is-it-by-marie-d-jones/#comment-16892 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:02:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11013#comment-16892 I completely agree with you, Marie, that we have to be true to our voices and to the stories that want to come out. There’s been a lot of discussion, should be, about women authors being under-represented in reviews, sales, etc, and about what constitutes a women’s topic and why, when men write on those topics (like love) they aren’t “women’s” any more. I think you are proof, like so many writers, that the stories themselves aren’t gendered unless we really want them to be. And maybe, just maybe, they aren’t gendered even then.

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