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 feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Empowering women means trusting them.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.