Abi Morgan

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth. ”

Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her. ”

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective. ”

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men. ”

I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists. ”

Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story. ”

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage. ”

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist. ”

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart. ”

I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on. ”