The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

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.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.