write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

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

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

I need to remember to overcome.