Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

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

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

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

Fearing servility, people become servile.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.