A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.