I need to remember to overcome.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

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.