Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.