From Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy by Judith Kegan Gardiner"Rhys said that she lied but that her fiction told truth, especially the truths that life is unfair and social conventions mad. Fiction would redress this unfairness, not through the poetic justice of inventing a better world, but instead through the representation of an unfair world, which, unlike the social reality we normally perceive, obtrudes its unfairness upon us."
"Frequently she complained that no one had told her what life would be like. Her writing, then, acts to validate her perceptions by creating a world that operates according to the rules she perceives in society."
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