Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.