The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

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

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.