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.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.