Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
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