I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

Empowering women means trusting them.

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.