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

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

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.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

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