First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.

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

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.