If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.