This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.