If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.