I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

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

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.