Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.