Are We to Say That Women Aren't Artists?

You wrote Free Food for Millionaires, which was really your third book, but your first to publish. And you said that the experience over the 12 years that it took for Free Food For Millionaires to be published was a good lesson. Every single writer that you can name all the greats were a writer before they published their first book. So are we to say that women aren't artists and creators and writers and thinkers and scientists? I mean, it's absurd when you think about all the institutional barriers women have had to suffer through and had to fight against.