Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.
I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.
I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.
Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.
There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
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