I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.