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

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.

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.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.