But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

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

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

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

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