Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.