That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.
I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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