As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

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.

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

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.