True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Cooking can be like foreplay.