I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

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

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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