If A Certain Writer Had Been Infertile….(Maybe she wouldn’t have written such drivel.)

I was recently directed toward an editorial from a friend’s post on FB. An author named Amanda Craig decided to criticize famous women writers who were childless. This criticism included the late Maeve Binchy merely days after Binchy’s death.

Evidently, according to Craig, women authors who don’t have children have the emotional intelligence of, well, a man. She contends their writing lacks the emotional depth compared to that of a mother. It seems, in her opinion, that mothers are the only on...