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" At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet. "

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" I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. "

" My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. "

" For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. "

" If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. "

" I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember. "

" I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it. "

" You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against. "

" I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. "

" In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative. "

" I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep. "

" 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. "

" Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. "

" I try to write the kind of books I like to read. "

" I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! "

" Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. "

" If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. "

" Empowering women means trusting them. "

" Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error. "

" A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons. "

" Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much. "

" I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. "

" I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. "

" I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer. "

" 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. "

" I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. "

" Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family. "

" If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story. "

" It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. "

" I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992. "