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.

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.

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.

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

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

It's better to dance than to march through life.