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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

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.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.

My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?

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.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

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.

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.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

If you are creative you must be dissident.

They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman."
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

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.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

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.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

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.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.