If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.