Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.