I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.