I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.