I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

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.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.