Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.