My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

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

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

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.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone