The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)

by Graeme Simsion

‘Because I’m a woman, and all my life I’ve had to deal with stuff: discrimination, attitudes, something in the paper or on TV or a billboard, little things that are too small to complain about without looking petty, but they add up. They make life not as good as it should be, every day, and you can’t do anything about it. It’s worse now I’m a mother as well – the way people talk to me when I’m with Hudson, and at work … not just Judas – everyone makes it part of my identity in a way they don’t do with Stefan, who’s got a four-year-old. I figure it’d be worse again if I was a lesbian.’