The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.

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.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.