I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

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.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.