Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.