We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.