"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it." — Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.