"I am a very shy person. That's why I speak through my writing."

"I try to be optimistic. I think that's the only way to get through life."

"In every good marriage, it helps to be a little deaf."

"I think the biggest challenge for women today is to combine a career with family life."

"I often said that if I had any talent in the world, it would be as an opera diva. But my voice is not up to it."