When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.