We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.