In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

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

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.