“I want to write about love – about being a human being – about loneliness – about being a woman. I want to write about an encounter on an island. A man who changed my life. I want to write about a change that was accidental and a change that was deliberate. I want to write about moments I regard as gifts, good moments and bad moments. I don’t believe that the knowledge or experience that is part of me is any greater than what others have…It is not Liv Ullmann people meet in magazines and newspapers that I shall be writing about…I feel that I am afraid of revealing myself. Afraid that what I write will leave me vulnerable and no longer able to defend myself.” – Liv Ullmann, Changing