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

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

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

Empowering women means trusting them.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.