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?'
“I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.”