The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.