I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.