No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.