You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

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.

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

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.