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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.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

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.

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

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

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

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

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

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.