Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

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

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.