The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

I thank God every day for my family.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

When I was nine years old, my father went to Spain to work for three years, and I was in Portugal. He has a sports store. I only saw him once a month, which was difficult. I was alone with my mother and my sister, who is younger than me.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.