The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

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.

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

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.