Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?