"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"

Character, Woman, Writing

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"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

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