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

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

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