Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

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

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.