Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

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

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.

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