If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

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

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

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

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.