Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?