"Write what should not be forgotten."
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"...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously."
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"You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them."
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"Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another."
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"At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it."
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"We only have what we give."
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"I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books."
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"...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars"
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"Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible."
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"Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you."
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"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything."
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"And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone."
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"The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric."
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"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."
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"When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique."
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"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process."
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"if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?"
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"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome."
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"In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity."
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"Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity."
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