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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Fearing servility, people become servile.
All revolutions in history have obstacles.
If you are creative, you must be dissident.
Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.
I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.