Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

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

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

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.