We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

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.

Light generates life and causes it to grow.

Segregation is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

When you respond to your heart you are responding to love.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.

I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.