The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

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.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.