There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.