A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.