Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.