Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

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

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was, ” he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.