We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

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

I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.