Sally Wainwright

I thought about my sons being bigger.

You know, my sons were tiny boys.

I wondered what they'd be like when they were 27.

But I never thought about myself.

No, I just didn't project ahead.

I didn't imagine what I would be like.

But I think it's interesting to talk about the plus side of menopause.

I love it.

You know, there are cultures like Maori culture where women are celebrated.

They've achieved wisdom and they're retaining their blood because it is now part of their wisdom.

I think it's just the invisibleness of it.

It's the myth that, well, the myth that women aren't interesting at all, really, except how they relate to men, which we've suffered with for quite a long time on television.

You know, we've suffered for quite a long time on television with women being female constructs because old telly was written by men for so long.

Forever.

And even to the point where when it was written by women...

women also bought into those female, those male constructs of what women should be.

In the same way that men have designed women's bodies for so long with, you know, the invention of corsets and high heels.

You know, women didn't invent those, men did.

It's shocking, isn't it?

On TV, it's about women writing about women and being honest about women.