If You Think Chick-Lit Insults Women, Maybe That’s Your Problem

Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic books: “You can be highly intelligent, and also ditzy and klutzy. You can be unable to cook, you can like lipstick. And I think it’s more realistic to represent women having all these facets, than to say, OK, you’re intelligent, so I’ve got to write you as all competent, which I think is an unfair ideal.”