One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

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

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

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

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.