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.

I need to remember to overcome.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.