...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

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.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.