Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Write what should not be forgotten.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
We don’t have an explanation for everything that happens. We don’t control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
We only have what we give.
Although women do two-thirds of the world’s labor, they own less than one percent of the world’s assets.
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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.
Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.