Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men..

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

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy..

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies..

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 nonfic….

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 th….

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith..

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly..

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- it….

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth..

If you are creative, you must be dissident..

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them i….

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present….

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, a….

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one w….

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident..

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies..

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are..

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy..

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society..

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