All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

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.

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

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.