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

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

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

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.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.