I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.