I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

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

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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

When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

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