After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

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

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.