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.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.