We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

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.

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