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

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

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

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.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

I’ve spent awhile trying to figure out where I’m going and the only thing I’ve come to realize is it doesn’t matter where, it’s how I get there.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.