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

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

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.

The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.

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

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

All revolutions in history have obstacles.