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

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

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.