I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

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

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

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.