Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

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

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

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.