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.

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.