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 ab….

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist..

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of soci….

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave..

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write..

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you..

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer..

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence..

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write..

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things..

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else..

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes..

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to ….

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name..

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, ….

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in..

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan..

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 ….

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it..

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead..

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist..