There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

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

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.