My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.
It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.
