Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Surviving means being born over and over.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.