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

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

I've lived 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.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

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

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.