I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

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

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.