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.

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

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

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

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.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.