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

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.

Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

I was a mother's boy.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.