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

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

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.