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

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

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

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.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.