People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

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

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.