A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.