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"I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later."
"Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages."
"Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me."
"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."
"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."
"People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer."
"Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information."
"When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince."
"Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul."
"Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment."
"Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context."
"I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room."
"At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours."
"I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth."
"No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy."
"Sex is the instrument and love the music."
"When I fall in love I'm obsessed."
"I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy."
"The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country."
"My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females."