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family composed of mother, father, children, nannies and pets seems to me to be super-enclosed, poor and conservative. Aside from my personal choice not to be a mother, I think having children is super nice."), that she was not worried about having a massive success ("I like that my life is still normal, that writing and publishing is my happiness. I do not want my work to become a race for success, to have to respond to an editorial expectation. I do not see myself like this."), and lamented stereotypes about women ("That women are crying the most and writing with more sentimentality is a stereotype that is very bad for gender equality. And that happens with questions of the duty of women to marry, to have children and to form a happy family.").
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Meruane and Alejandra Costamagna, followed by Nona Fernández and by five or six young women armed with all the implements of good
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Volver a verla y otros cuentos (2000, Alfaguara, Chile).
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632:El río y la ciudad (2019, Eduner, Argentina).
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