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

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.