As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.