At the age of eighty, she said this about her career: "My identity is very clear to me now.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

"My background is a teacher. I taught young adults from, say,age eleven through thirteen for about fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the dead lying all over the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

"As a kid,when I first put a tank on my back, I was seven years of age.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"My mother was a teenage mother, at the age of 16, with my older brother,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04