"A seed does not see the light without first cleaving a difficult path through the earth. This story of mine is the st…"

"The iron mould the family cast us in and would not allow us to break, the time-worn rules difficult to overturn, the …"

"The poorer women thought nothing of moving around the bath rooms with naked breasts and buttocks. I was delighted wit…"

"Just as tyrannical surveillance, repression and sugjugation in society give rise to the dual traits of submission and…"

"The man dominated family life, as in all homes of our society. The woman had to forget that the word 'no' existed in …"

"In school I was able to discover some parts of my lost self. There I established myself as a person, something I had …"

"For the first time I experienced blissful sleeplessness full of fantasies and delightful imaginings; and for the firs…"

"I sense the absurdity and aimlessness of life as I stand bewildered, lost and weak before the tide of overpowering de…"

"When some people meet with a private or public catastrophe, the foundations of their faith are sometimes shaken, caus…"

"Throughout my literary career I have shrunk within myself and shied away whenever confronted with questions concernin…"