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

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.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

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

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 we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

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