Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

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

Fearing servility, people become servile.

There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.

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.

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

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.