We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

"The measure of a good book is determined by how much it disturbs the reader."