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If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

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

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.