My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.