In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.