When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

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

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.

The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.