Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.