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I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

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

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.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.