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I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

I love stories about women.

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.