Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

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

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

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