I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.