Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

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.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!