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I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

I certainly don't recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don't think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.