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

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.