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I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

You see actors who make family work, but it's difficult for any woman.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.