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I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

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.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.